Carrollton Excelsior & Fuel Co. v. New Orleans & N. E. R.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit is for damages for loss of profits, loss of credit, and destruction of plaintiff’s business. The jurisdictional grounds are that defendant has inflicted these damages on plaintiff by deliberately instituting, publishing, and applying unjust, unreasonable, and discriminatory interstate tariffs and practices. The claim is that to favor plaintiff’s competitor, an excelsior manufacturer at Basic, Miss., defendant carried raw material, wood, for it on an unreasonably low intrastate rate of 2% cents per 100 pounds, while publishing and applying to plaintiff’s…