General Mills, Inc. v. Steele

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Appellee agreed to transport, as a contract motor carrier, the-merchandise of Appellant for a period of three years, in an area having a radius of 150 miles, for the compensation of his actual expenses plus ten per cent. He performed his agreement until it was lawfully terminated three years later. There was in effect at the time of the making of this agreement, and during the entire three years, a statute, and an order of the Railroad Commission, of Texas, providing that the rates which a contract motor carrier, in competition with a common carrier; could charge should…