Union Transfer Co. v. Renstrom

Plaintiff, a duly authorized motor vehicle common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, brought this action to recover the difference between its duly approved,-filed, and published applicable tariff rate and the rate paid by defendants, based upon alleged false descriptions in bills of lading furnished plaintiff by defendants for shipments of steel stampings loose in barrels and transported by plaintiff upon designated occasions from Omaha to St. Paul, Minnesota, and return. The items were concededly described and transported as “unfinished stampings” and if such, concededly carried a rate…