VICKSBURG, S. & P. RY. CO. v. PAUP

No. 5846.

47 F.2d 1069 (1931)

VICKSBURG, S. & P. RY. CO. v. PAUP et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 23, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. I. Wheeler, of Texarkana, Tex. (Chas. N. Burch, of Memphis, Tenn., John J. King, J. Q. Mahaffey, and C. E. Bryson, all of Texarkana, Tex., on the brief), for appellant.

Carl B. Callaway, of Dallas, Tex. (A. L. Reed, of Dallas, Tex., on the brief), for appellees.

Before BRYAN and FOSTER, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

Appellees shipped from various points in Louisiana to the town of Ruston, in said state, cotton in carload lots, under what are commonly known as milling in transit rates. The applicable tariffs provided that, if the shipper wished to be relieved of the local inbound charges, he should surrender to the agent of the company at Ruston the original freight bills covering the movement of the uncompressed cotton, and that the point of origin, date...

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