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GT. NO. RY. v. MERCHANTS ELEV. CO.

No. 202.

259 U.S. 285 (1922)

42 S.Ct. 477

66 L.Ed. 943

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY ET AL. v. MERCHANTS ELEVATOR COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John F. Finerty, with whom Mr. F.G. Dorety was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Harold G. Simpson for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

This action was brought by the Merchants Elevator Company in a state court of Minnesota against the Great Northern Railway Company and the Director General to recover $80 alleged to have been exacted in violation of the carrier's tariff. That sum had been demanded by the carrier, under Rule 10 of its tariff, as a reconsignment charge, at the rate of $5 a car, for sixteen cars of corn shipped from points in Iowa...

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