Legal Opinion
Layman Bynum, J. B. Johnson, E. A. Dillard, Irby Jackson, Leon C. Roe and Gwyn Crouse v. Baggett Transportation Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 11, 1956No. 15744PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, owner-lessors of motor trucks under an operating lease to appel-lee, Baggett Transportation Co., Inc., an interstate motor truck contract carrier, sought an accounting of their percentage share of the “earned revenue” or “revenue” fixed in the lease operating contract. 1
Obviously a proper action for accounting in both substance and procedure, involving hundreds of distinct shipments of countless commodities to and from numerous points, presenting thus the inevitable esoteric mysteries of application and interpretation of carrier tariffs, the court referred it…
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- Little v. PhippsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
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3Cited by16 opinions
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