Sunburst Oil & Refining Co. v. Great Northern Railway Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of Cascade county, entered October 17, 1930, awarding the plaintiff $3,262.25, together with interest and costs, by reason of alleged unjust and unreasonable freight charges collected by the defendant from the plaintiff for the transportation of 266 cars of petroleum distillate on the defendant’s railroad from Kevin and Sunburst to Great Falls, between August 28, 1926, and August 4, 1928. The rate charged was in accordance with the published tariff of the board of railroad commissioners then in effect, prescribing a rate of 20% cents per…