Atlantic & Y. Ry. Co. v. Carolina Button Corp.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from judgments in two suits, heard together in the court below, which were instituted under section 16 (2) of the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 USCA §'16 (2), to recover damages awarded by the Interstate Commerce Commission for the charging of unreasonable rates on interstate shipments of freight. In proper proceedings filed with the Commission, plaintiffs had assailed as unreasonable the through rates on bones, other than human or fresh meat bones, which were ship*871ped on through bills of lading from Chicago, 111., and Brighton, Mass., to Mt. Airy, N. C.…