Green Mountain Log Co. v. Columbia & Nehalem River Railroad

This is in the nature of an action for money had and received to recover certain alleged overcharges made by the defendant railroad company on shipments of logs by plaintiff which was engaged in logging operations in the lower Columbia river basin. The shipments were made between February 28, 1924, and June 1, 1925, and moved under tariff rate published by defendant railroad requiring the shipper to pay $3.25 per thousand feet of logs transported, “based on Spaulding scale.” Plaintiff asserts that the railroad company erroneously applied the tariff rate to these shipments and seeks to recover…