Reliance Elevator Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in "tbe district court for Hennepin county to recover $493.51, overcharge on 69 carloads of wheat, shipped from' Strasburg, North Dakota, to Minneapolis. The answer Was a general denial. The case was tried before Steele, J., who at the close of the evidence granted defendant’s motion, to dismiss the case on the ground that the court was without jurisdiction of the subject matter. From an order denying its motion for a new trial, pl'aintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C.
Plaintiff shipped 69 carloads of wheat over defendant’s railway from Strasburg, North Dakota, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and defendant exacted and collected 17 cents per hundred pounds for transporting it. Plaintiff contends that the lawful rate for such transportation fixed and prescribed by the tariff or schedule of rates published by defendant and filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission is 16 cents per hundred pounds, and brought this suit to recover the alleged overcharge. At the trial a small amount of testimony was taken, and then the parties made a written stipulation…
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