Hutchison v. L. & N. R. R. Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 86 — Action to Recover Freight Chaeges Improperly Collected by Dependant APPEAL PROM LOGAN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment por Dependant and Plaintipp Appeals. (No briefs in record.)
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE 'HOBSON
Reversing.
Appellants in the years 1894 and 1895 shipped a large quantity of tobacco from Auburn, Logan county, Ky., over appellee’s road, and were charged by it for the transportation of the tobacco at the rate of thirty cents per hundred pounds. The distance from Auburn to Louisville is 132 miles. Guthrie, Ky., is another point on the same line, 163 miles from Louisville, and Hopkinsville is 188 miles from Louisville. During the same period when appellants were paying thirty 'cents per hundred pounds for the transportation of their tobacco, appellee…
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