Southern Pacific Transportation Co. v. Commercial Metals Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “[t]he bill of lading is the basic transportation contract between the shipper-consignor and the carrier.”
• finding that failure to sign the non-recourse clause in the bill of lading left the shipper primarily liable
• stating that \[t]he bill of lading is the basic transportation contract between the shipper-consignor and the carrier.\
• permitting carrier that violated ICC regulations to collect full filed tariff rate because “such ‘equities’ as may exist by virtue of the carrier’s ... violation [of the regulations] ... are insufficient in magnitude to overcome the time-honored” filed tariff obligation
• “[A] carrier has not only the right but also the duty to recover its proper charges for services performed.”
• regulations do not “intimate that a carrier’s violation of the credit rules [there at issue] automatically precludes it from collecting the lawful freight charge”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).