Woodfin v. Overnite Transportation Company

Overnite Transportation Company, a common carrier of freight by motor vehicle, instituted this suit in equity to enjoin Woodfin Brothers, a partnership contract carrier, from actively soliciting and transporting commodities between the cities of Richmond and Danville at a freight rate or charge less than that prescribed by the State Corporation Commission for a common carrier transporting the same commodities between the two cities. The trial court entered a decree sustaining a demurrer to the bill which decree, on appeal to this court, was reversed and the case remanded for a trial on the…