The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-02-24
LUMBER FIRM
COMPLAINS OF
FREIGHT Rates
0AxTER Z Co, or JACKSONVILLE,
NAVE .cAaE BEFORE INTER
STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
MEAT PlRM ALSO suEA

Three moro suits IN which Jackson
VILE people are Interested were taken
mp before Commissioner G. r. Hi1lyer.
. special examiner for the Interstate
Commerce commission. today. further
eonsideratioa OF the suit OF ths Rail-
eosd Ccmmission OF the State Of Flor
ida VI. the Southern Express Company.
which opened in the United States
court yesterday, having been post
poned until o'clock this afternoon.
THIS II . suit brought for the benefit
q Florida fruit and vegetable grow
er1 who seek relief from alleged ex-
-oeesfve and discriminatory freight
snAes to scuthsEn points.
Probably the most important OF the
eases taken up today was that Of C..
.. Banter q Co. VI. the Georgia South
orn and Florida Railroad. Baxter &
Co. are In the lumber business in Jack
sonville, and allege that the defendant
railroad company has maintained un-
lawful freight rates on lumber shipped
ovaF IT. lines.
Unjust and unrsasenahls.
It 10 contended by the lumber COR
Germ that the tariffs charged by the
railroad are unjust and unreasonable
IN IN respects, that the road makes a
special commodity rate on cross ties.
and that the correct basis for freight
charges on certain lumber was the
full. local rate and not ths commodity
rate.
In this case Attorneys C. L. Redding
and ]. e. Phelan, Of Waycross, Ca,
represent the plaintiff. while the rail-
road IL represented by r. Walton
Moore. Of Washington, D. c. Mr.. Moore
10 not only special counsel for the
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad
In this case, but is employed as coun-
be heard by Commissioner Hillyer
while holding court here.
Meat Company W. Railroad.
Another case Of considerable inter
est In this city and the entire south is
that Of the Florida Mercantile Agency
for Smith, Richardson & Conroy VS..
the Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadei-
phia. Baltimore and Washington Rail-
road Company, Richmond. Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad Company.
eeaboard Air Line Railroad and the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
Allegation is made by the plaintiff
that the defendant railroad companies
demand SO IL cents per one hundred
pounds on fresh meat and poultry. III
carload lots. from Jersey City, N. J., TO
Jacksonville. This rate is said to be
cents per pound above the fourth
class on freight, which is the class
given fresh meat and poultry by the
Southern. Western and off1cial classifi-
cation.
It 10 further alleged that the entire
amount Of the increase in rate has
besn> added to the rate north of Rich
nonA, Va. which 10 equal to the pro-
portion Of the third class rate from
Jersey City. N. J., to Richmond, Va.
In this case. briefs will be submitted
TO the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion At q later date.
Pons to Get Rebate.
y. ]. PonS. secretary and treasurer
cf the Florida Live Stock and Agri-
cultural Fair Association, brought suit
against the Seaboard Air Line Rail-
road because OF alleged excessive
Freight rates on the shipment Of two
horses from Columbia, 8. c., to Jack
bonvfile. October %. 1909.
In the complaint 1t is set forth that
On the date the horses were shipped
hero. the rate to Jacksonville from
Columbia on horses was Is cents per
pne hundred pounds. while the rate
Rrom Jacksonville to Columbia was 81
cents per one hundred pounds.
It IL further set forth that the plain
~ paid the defendant road $24.84 for
Transporting the horses, an amount
Ge2S In excess OF the rate which
should have been charged.
On behalf of the Seaboard Air Line,
Attorney Moore admitted that a mis-
Ire had been made, and Mr.. Pons will
be HAfn hurSAd In the sum claimed