United States v. Bethke

CHRISTENSON, District Judge.

This is an action by the Government of the United States to recover a claimed freight overcharge collected by the defendant truck lines.

From the admissions in the pleadings, the stipulations of the parties and from the evidence concerning the few facts which were not agreed upon, the Court finds that the Bethke Truck Lines was a common carrier during all times material herein; that as such common carrier it received a shipment of Government property consigned by the Philadelphia Quartermaster’s Depot to an ROTC detachment at Fort Collins, Colorado, which shipment…