Louisiana Railway & Navigation Co. v. Lawrence

Plaintiff, a railroad Company, sues defendant to recover alleged under charges on seven shipments of ties— two on April 25th, 1919, and the rest

since that date, claiming that the rate paid was 2c per hundred, when it should have been 6%c.

The suit was filed April 25th, 1921 and citation served April 26th, 1921.

Defendant filed an exception of no cause of action which was properly overruled and which was not urged in this court. Against the claim as based on the two earliest shipments he pleads the prescription of two years which plea seems not to have been decided by the lower court. No law is…