Church v. Minneapolis & St. L. Ry. Co.

Citations

• 14 S.D. 443
• 85 N.W. 1001
• 1901 S.D. LEXIS 42

Syllabus

<p>24 Stat. 379, declares that, if any common carrier shall receive from any person a greater or less compensation for any service rendered than it receives from others for a like service, such carrier shall he guilty of unjust discrimination, which is declared to be unlawful. Held, that where plaintiff sued a railroad company to recover certain chattels without first paying freight charges thereon, according to the company’s published schedule, and plaintiff claimed that an agreement whereby transportation charges were to be less than the published schedule, there could be no recovery, such contract being unlawful as to both parties.</p>