Monongahela Navigation Co. v. Wood

Citations

• 194 Pa. 47
• 45 A. 73
• 1899 Pa. LEXIS 721

Syllabus

<p>Payment — Recovery of illegal payment of tolls — Protest—Notice—Navigation company — ¡Shippers of coal.</p> <p>Shippers of coal cannot recover from a navigation company tolls illegally collected, nor can such payments be set off by them in an action brought by the navigation company to collect unpaid tolls, where there is no evidence to show that, either when the tolls were paid or at any other time, notice was served upon the navigation company that the shippers would demand repayment of the excessive amount paid.</p>