Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Alexandria Paper Co.
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Alexandria Paper Co.
Opinion of the Court
— This cause was tried in the Madi-
son Circuit Court, without a jury, upon appellant’s amended complaint, to which appellee had answered in three paragraphs; the third paragraph was set-off, and is not involved in this appeal. There was a general finding and judgment for the appellee, from which, after a motion for a new trial was overruled, this appeal was taken.
It appears by the complaint that the appellant was a common carrier of freight, and the appellee was an Indiana corporation, engaged in the manufacture of paper at Alexandria, Indiana. In November and December, 1910, it had shipped to it on the Evansville and Terre Haute Eailroad, via appellant’s railroad, sixty-three cars, containing 2,851.8 tons of coal, freight charges following, which coal was transported and delivered by said companies to, and received and accepted by, appellee at Alexandria. Said carriers had on file with the Public Service Commission of Indiana, and in force and effect at that time, a tariff prescribing a charge for transporting this coal of sixty-five cents per ton. Through mistake, appellant’s agent collected from appellee but sixty cents per ton. Thereafter appellant demanded of appellee $142.56, representing five cents per ton additional, making its full published schedule rate, which appellee refused to pay.
In its motion for a new trial, the overruling of which was the only error assigned, the appellant complains that the decision of the court is not sustained by sufficient evidence, and that it is contrary to law.
The judgment is reversed, with instructions to the trial court to grant a new trial.
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