Reading Co. v. Sobelman

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

This is an action by a common carrier to recover an inadvertent undercharge in interstate freight rates resulting from an improper classification of two carloads of iron boiler tubes as scrap iron.

On December 6, 1935, the Empire Iron and Metal Company of Granville, N. Y. shipped ¡two carloads of boiler tubes to Philadelphia, Pa. The initial) carrier, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, issued uniform order bills of lading covering the shipments under which the tubes were consigned to the order of the shipper, “Notify B. H. Sobelman”; they also bore a notation— “For export.”…