MURRAY v. GULF, C. & S. F. RY. CO.

Civ. No. 1263.

59 F.Supp. 366 (1945)

MURRAY CO. et al. v. GULF, C. & S. F. RY. CO. et al.

District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

March 14, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank C. Brooks (of Callaway & Reed), and Reuben Williams, all of Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Joe M. Burford, Allen Charlton, Robertson, Leachman, Payne, Gardere & Lancaster, Touchstone, Wight, Gormley & Touchstone, and W. P. Donalson, all of Dallas, Tex., Baker, Botts, Andrews & Wharton, of Houston, Tex., Terry, Cavin & Mills, of Galveston, Tex., and Wren & Jeffrey, of Fort Worth, Tex., for defendants.


ATWELL, District Judge.

The suit is for the collection of, what the plaintiff claims to be, excessive charges on various shipments of "twisted or coiled" steel bars. The defendant railways assert that what was shipped were "bomb bodies," or "bomb body parts."

The articles, at a little distance, look like metal cylinders about three inches in diameter. Upon closer inspection they appear to be a closely woven, or coiled, rather heavy square rod so that it makes...

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