Commodity Credit Corp. v. Henwood

STONE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for $14,770.37 recovered for undercharges on shipments of cotton over the lines of the railway. The judgment amount is made up of two principal sums ($9,859.49 and $1,-743.71) with interest thereon. Only the first of the above sums is involved in this appeal.

Appellant was neither consignor nor consignee of the shipments involved. The liability is based upon the claimed rights of the railway, as a third person, under contracts between appellant and the several owners of the cotton.

The essential facts are undisputed and are as follows.…