Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Rogers
West Virginia Supreme Court
Original petition for writ of prohibition by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company against T. C. Rogers, Justice, and another.
1Opinion of the Court
Robinson, Pbesident:
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company made a charge for demurrage on a car of hay shipped from Newark, Ohio, to the Saunders-Weider Company at Huntington. The charge made was based on the published rates of the railway company, filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission pursuant to the acts of Congress in that behalf. The rate so published and established was one dollar per day. The railway company, applying that rate to the number of days which it claimed the car had been left on its tracks, exacted from the 'Saunders-Weider Company the sum of nineteen dollars.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Robinson v. Baltimore & Ohio R.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1908
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