Thompson v. Erie Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, James S. Thompson, as permanent receiver of The Union Iron Works, Buffalo, N. Y., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 3d day of February, 1903, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Erie Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Hiscock, J.:
During the years 1899 and 1900- the above-named Union Iron Works was engaged in operating a blast furnace in the southern part of the city of Buffalo. Plaintiff, as its receiver, subsequently appointed, claims that during part of said period the defendant in violation of a contract refused to give it special switching rates in connection with the operation of said blast furnace, and compelled, it to pay rates exceeding such special ones to which the corporation was entitled by the amount of about $18,000. This action was brought to recover back such alleged excessive charges.
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