Eastern Coal & Export Corp. v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

Prentis, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The Norfolk and. Western Railway Company, hereafter called the railway company, upon a claim for demurrage, has recovered of the Eastern Coal and Export Corporation, hereafter called the coal company.

The case is one of many growing out of delays in the transshipment of coal consigned to the coal company, care of Lambert’s Point Coal Exchange, at Norfolk, and there pooled'.

So much has been said with reference to such litigation, based upon the railway demurrage tariffs on coal for transshipment by vessel and pooling agreements, that much of detail…