Becher-Barrett-Lockerby Co. v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.

THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

The appeal in this, case is from a judgment in favor of the appellee, a common carrier, for reconsignment charges on four cars of grain shipped to the appellant at Minneapolis, Minn., between May 8, 1931, and May 31, 1933, under a tariff then in effect and claimed by appellee to authorize the charges. The appellant contended that, under the circumstances existing at the time, the charges were unauthorized.

The applicable reconsignment tariff of the appellee in effect at the time of the transactions here involved, in so far as material, provided:

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