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MINNEAPOLIS & c. RY. v. WASHBURN LIGNITE COAL CO.

No. 55.

254 U.S. 370 (1920)

MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL & SAULT STE. MARIE RAILWAY COMPANY v. WASHBURN LIGNITE COAL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 20, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John L. Erdall, with whom Mr. A.H. Bright and Mr. H.B. Dike were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Alfred Zuger and Mr. Andrew Miller, with whom Mr. B.F. Tillotson was on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action by a railroad company against a shipper, for whom it had carried many carloads of coal between points in the State of North Dakota, to recover for that service a compensation in addition to what was demanded and paid when the service was rendered. Judgment went against the carrier in the court of first instance, and again in the Supreme Court of the State, 40 N. Dak. 69; and this writ...

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