Smith v. Thompson, Trustee

On the 26th day of July, 1938, respondent loaded, at Fisk, Missouri, a carload of watermelons, and consigned them to himself at St. Louis, Missouri. The car of melons arrived in St. Louis on July 27, 1938, and was inspected about eight o’clock A. M., on the same day. .

According to the tariff rate, the freight on the watermelons from Fisk, Missouri, to St. Louis, Missouri, was 14c per 100 pounds, but the agent at Fisk overlooking the fact that there had been a 5 per cent increase, quoted respondent a rate of 13y2e per 100 pounds. The freight, was not paid at Fisk but was paid at St. Louis, and…