Graham v. Oregon R. & Nav. Co.

WARD, Circuit Judge.

The question in this case is whether the libelant and the respondent made an agreement for an exclusive interchange of traffic for the term of three years between the libelant’s line of steamships, running between Portland, Or., and the Orient, and the respondent’s railroad, running to Portland. The libelant did establish such a line, and there was an interchange of traffic between it and the railroad from September, 1900, to March or April, 1901, when the respondent put its own line of steamships on the service. The district judge dismissed the libel.

We agree with the…