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SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. ACME FAST FREIGHT

No. 7694.

124 F.2d 229 (1941)

SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. ACME FAST FREIGHT, Inc.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 10, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Seddon G. Boxley, of Washington, D. C. with whom Messrs. George E. Hamilton, John J. Hamilton, George E. Hamilton, Jr., and Henry R. Gower, all of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. George D. Rives, of Washington, D. C. with whom Mr. Jack R. Turney, Jr., of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before VINSON, EDGERTON, and RUTLEDGE, Associate Justices.

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

Appellee, Acme Fast Freight, Inc., a freight forwarder, sued appellant, the Southern Railway Company, to recover five cents per hundred pounds on freight shipped by Acme from Southern's freight station at High Point, North Carolina. Under a license or lease from Southern, Acme occupied certain space in that station, for which it paid rent, and carried on its business there. Part of this space was enclosed by a partition. Southern picked...

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