Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York, 1957

Sewall v. Weeks Moving & Storage Corp.

Sewall v. Weeks Moving & Storage Corp.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided April 24, 1957
9 Misc. 2d 338; 172 N.Y.S.2d 773; 1957 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 3128

Counsel

Robert Pratt for appellant., Charles H. Bewail, respondent in person.

Sewall v. Weeks Moving & Storage Corp.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

Notwithstanding the erroneous quotation of a lower rate, plaintiff was required to pay the minimum rate fixed by the tariffs duly filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission (Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. v. Maxwell, 237 U. S. 94; Pennsylvania R. R. Co. v. Titus, 216 N. Y. 17, 22, 23; Willson v. American Ry. Express Co., 204 App. Div. 59, affd. 239 N. Y. 562).

The judgment should be unanimously reversed on the law and facts, without costs, and complaint dismissed, with appropriate costs in the court below. Appeal from order should be dismissed as academic.

Pette, Hart and Brown, JJ., concur..

Judgment reversed, etc.

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