Illinois Cent. R. v. Mississippi Cotton Seed Products Co.

The appellee sued and obtained a judgment against the appellant for an alleged overcharge of freight on several shipments of cotton seed from points on the Gulf & Ship Island Bailroad consigned to the appellee at Hazlehurst, Mississippi. The Gulf & Ship Island Bail-road Company and the Illinois Central Eailroad Com pany are connecting carriers, and Hazlehurst is on “the Illinois Central Railroad. The freight charges were collected by the Illinois Central Railroad, and were in accord with the through joint tariff of the two railroads ; the Illinois Central Railroad paying to the Gulf & Ship…