Robinson v. Baltimore & O. R. Co.

Citations

• 129 F. 753
• 64 C.C.A. 281
• 1904 U.S. App. LEXIS 4097

Syllabus

<p>1. Caebiees — Receiving Goods — Regulations.</p> <p>A common carrier has power to make reasonable regulations governing the manner and place in which it will receive such articles as it professes to carry, and also to change or modify such regulations on reasonable notice to the public.</p> <p>2. Same — Shipment op Coal.</p> <p>Where a carrier had designated a certain siding as the place at which it would receive coal for transportation, and such siding was not an unreasonable place, a shipper was not entitled to compel the carrier to receive coal from him at another siding, where merchandise other than coal was received, merely because the place so designated was not so accessible to such shipper.</p> <p>3. Same — Injunction—Public Nuisance.</p> <p>Where a shipper of coal refused to deliver coal to the carrier at a siding designated for that purpose, and, in his endeavor to compel the carrier to receive coal at another siding, intended for shippers of other merchandise, blocked such siding with teams for the purpose of obstructing traffic, and took possession of cars intended for other shippers, and dumped coal at the siding and station, which resulted in the total suspension of all freight business at the station for two days, and he threatened to continue such acts indefinitely until the carrier submitted to his demands, such acts amounted to a public nuisance, and justified relief by injunction.</p>