Court Opinion

ID: 8145775
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 20:23:06.44497+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:39:34.212888
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Mr. Justice Stone
dissenting.
I dissent from the opinion of the majority of the Court on the ground that the consignees who paid the freight to procure goods, the title to which was in them when shipped, weré within the protection of the statute prohibiting unreasonable freight rates, and upon payment of the illegally exacted freight from their own funds they were the persons suffering proximate damage and were therefore entitled to recover the excess freight within the meaning of the statute and the reasoning of the opinion in Southern Pacific Co. v. Darnell-Taenzer Co., 245 U. S. 531.