Case ID: ohio-law-abs_5/html/0175-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "KINKADE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 221
    No. 20072
    The New York Central Railroad Company v. Public Utilities Commission.
    Error to the Public Utilities Commission.
    991. RAILROADS — Freight rate that does not allow reasonable profit to a carrier, after all costs of operation are taken into consideration, is an unreasonable rate.
   KINKADE, J.

In determining the correctness of a freight rate established by a railroad company covering shipments from loading point to destination, all items of cost and expense to the carrier, incident to the shipment, must be taken into account, including cost and expense of switching and spotting cars. for unloading, and particularly so where conditions attendant at delivery points are such as to substantially increase cost to carrier; and a freight rate that does not embrace a reasonable profit over and above actual cost and expense to the carrier is not a reasonable rate.

Order reversed.

Day, Robinson, Jones and Matthias, JJ., concur.