NATIONAL CARLOADING CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

No. 44867.

64 F.Supp. 150 (1946)

NATIONAL CARLOADING CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

February 4, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earle C. Calhoun, of Washington, D. C. (Robert E. Quirk and Norman, Quirk & Graham, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Louis R. Mehlinger, of Washington, D. C., and John F. Sonnett, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, and WHITAKER, JONES, LITTLETON, and MADDEN, Judges.


WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff sues the defendant for the sum of $5,664.95, additional freight charges to which it claims it is entitled.

Plaintiff is a freight forwarder. It accepts from shippers less-than-carload lots of merchandise, combines it with sufficient other freight to make up a carload, and ships it in carload lots. It charges shippers the less-than-carload lot (LCL) rate, but it pays the transportation company the car-load-lot rate. In this way it...

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