Great Northern Railway Co. v. Merchants Elevator Co.

Mr. Justice Brandéis

delivered the opinion of the court.

This action was brought by the Merchants Elevator Company in a state court of Minnesota against the Great Northern Railway Company and the Director General to recover $80 alleged to have been exacted in violation of the carrier’s tariff. That sum had been demanded by the carrier, under Rule 10 of its .tariff, as a reconsignment charge, at the rate of $5 a car, for sixteen cars of corn shipped from points in Iowa and Nebraska to Willmar, Minnesota, and after inspection there rebilled to Anoka, a station beyond. The tariff rate from, the…