Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Guthrie Cotton Oil Co.

HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

The question presented by this appeal involves the construction of a rate schedule. Appellee, Guthrie Cotton Oil Company, ordered cars of thirty-six feet and forty feet, six inches in length, in which to ship bales of cotton linters. The railroad company furnished fifty feet cars. Appellee loaded more linters into the cars furnished than could have been loaded into the cars ordered, but did not fill the cars to full capacity. Freight charges were assessed and paid on the basis of the rates and amounts applicable to cars thirty-six feet and forty feet, six inches in…