Panhandle & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. Welch

NORTHCUTT, Justice.

Appellee, D. A. Welch, sued appellant, Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway Company, to recover the difference between what is known , as concentration privileges or the combination rate and the through rate. Appellee alleged that he had purchased some 865 bales of cotton at Sudan and/or Muleshoe, Texas, that the cotton was shipped from said points of purchase over appellant’s rail line to Littlefield, Texas, for concentration and reshipment, that ap-pellee paid appellant $426.92 for freight from points of origin to the point of concentration, that thereafter the cotton whs…