Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Willis

Citations

• 111 Miss. 303
• 71 So. 563

Syllabus

<p>'•-Charges. Carriage of goods. Carriers. Limitation of actions.</p> <p>Under the federal law' (Act Feb. 4, 1887, ch. 104, 24 Stat. 379), requiring common carriers of interstate commerce to charge and collect freight rates according to the tariff schedules fixed by the interstate commerce commission and giving a carrier a right of action, where the amount charged did not equal the rate fixed by the interstate commission, such right of action is controlled by the state law, and the state statute of limitations being the law of the forum applied and will bar a recovery as upon other claims.</p>