Legal Opinion
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway Co. v. Maxine's Potato Service, Inc.
Ohio Court of Appeals
Decided November 18, 1983No. 1792PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtWeber, J.
In the spring of 1980 Joel St. Germain, a Minnesota potato farmer seeking to find a buyer for his potatoes, contacted a broker, Maxine’s Potato Service, Inc. The broker found a buyer in Evans Potato Company of Springfield, Ohio. The nature of the arrangement between St. Germain and Maxine’s remains uncertain, but it appears St. Germain loaded the potatoes into railroad cars bound for Springfield and signed the bills of lading.
Some portion of the potatoes was not accepted by Evans, and the railroad’s unpaid freight charges on three carloads totaled $9,797.26. Subsequently, St. Ger-main paid…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. FinkSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Williams v. First United Church of ChristOhio Supreme Court · 1974
- Southern Pacific Transportation Co. v. Commercial Metals Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Harold Konigsberg v. Austin F. ShuteCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970
- Pennsylvania R. Co. v. Adams Mercantile Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1944
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- Covey v. ConAgra, Inc.District Court, D. Colorado · 1991