RJ Darnell (Inc.) v. Illinois Central R. Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The facts, which involve the construction of § 5 of the act'of 1891 and direct appeals thereunder to this" court, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum opinion by direction of the court.
By Mr. Chief Justice White.
On motion to dismiss: Plaintiff in error, a Tennessee corporation, was the plaintiff below, One of the defendants is an Illinois and the other a Mississippi corporation. The action was commenced on June 24, 1911, to recover the excess over a reasonable rate exacted by the-defendants from the plaintiff for the carriage of hard-wood lumber, such excess being alleged to be two cents per hundred pounds on more than thirty-five million, pounds, of such lumber shipped by plaintiff between January 20, 1905, and August 1, 1908.…
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