Petaluma & Santa Rosa R. Co. v. Commodity Credit Corp.

ROCHE, Chief Judge.

This is an action to recover freight charges alleged to be due on eight wheat shipments made during the spring, of 1944 from various points in Canada to defendant Poultry Producers of Central California. The wheat was purchased by defendant Commodity Credit Corporation as part of a special emergency wartime United States Government relief program. Pursuant to the purchase agreement the Canadian shipper prepaid the freight charges to the border point known as Sweet-grass, Montana, and Commodity Credit Corporation paid the charges from that point on. This litigation concerns…