R. R. Discrimination Case

The gist of this action is for discrimination by the defendant in charging the plaintiff a higher rate on logs to the plaintiff's mill in Wilmington than was charged others for like service, and to recover the overcharges which had been paid under protest. The point presented is not that the rate, $2.50 per thousand feet in carload lots charged the plaintiff, is per se unreasonable, but that the rate charged others for the same service for the same distance was $2.10, and this a serious discrimination which if continued will result in the crippling or destruction of the plaintiff's mill and…