Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Camody

Plaintiff’s (petitioner’s) theory of this case, as stated by the Court of Appeals, was:

“That defendant (Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, appellant in the Court of Appeals] extorted the payment of the amount claimed, as demurrage, as a condition precedent to the delivery of the two carloads of lumber to plaintiff’s consignee, George C. Brown & Co.; that the consignee paid the demurrage under protest, deducted the amount so paid from the price due plaintiff, and in consideration thereof assigned the claim to the plaintiff. Therefore, if the plaintiff was entitled to recover at all, he…