Union Barge Line Corp. v. United Rental Equipment Co.

FRANK A. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

This litigation arises out of a contract between a shipper and a carrier (a barge line). The latter, as plaintiff, seeks the unpaid balance of the tariff and the shipper, the defendant, originally contending that the carrier used a different, more expensive barge than the shipper had contracted for, counterclaims for the difference between the amount it as the shipper has paid and the applicable tariff originally quoted to it by the carrier for demurrage and the cost of dismantling and unloading at destination. Plaintiff bases its claim on 49 U.S.C. §§ 906(c),…