Court Opinion

ID: 9831565
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:11:25.16274+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:35.877279
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOE EEHEABING FILED BY APPELLANT.
We are requested by both parties to correct our findings of fact in some particulars, and for additional findings, and in deference to such request we desire to correct the findings made and to make additional findings in what we regard, however, as' unimportant and immaterial particulars, in no way affecting any of the questions presented and decided on this appeal. We find as follows:
Powell & Company purchased lumber from other mills in Texas, with which to supply its said sales in part; it did not know when any particular car or stick of lumber left Buliff; into which ship or to what particular destination it would ultimately go; or on which sale it would be applied, this not being found out until its agent, Flannagan, inspected the invoice mailed to and received by him after shipment. Upon inspection of the invoice, he determined from the character of the lumber described whether it was suited for one cargo or the other. The lumber remained, after arrival, in the slips or on the dock from one to thirty days until a ship chartered by Powell & Company arrived, when that Company selected out the lumber suited for that cargo, and shipped it forward to the destination for which Powell & Company intended it.
We withdraw our findings that the rules and orders of the Texas Bailroad Commission would allow a switching charge of $1.50 per car on domestic shipments. The only testimony we can find on this point is that of the witness Beard, General Freight Agent of the Texas & New Orleans Bailroad Company, that “the Texas rate for switching these cars would have been $1.50 per 'car, that is, if Powell Company owned the docks; if it was shipped to the warehouse owned by consignees or his place of business.” This testimony does not authorize the general finding on this point made by us.
The freight rate due under the tariff on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission and collected on these shipments was fifteen cents per hundred pounds, and under this rate, the services rendered without other charge included switching from Sabine station to the docks, seven days free time exclusive of Sundays within which to unload the lumber from the car, and thirty days free storage of the lumber upon the docks at the wharves or in the slips belonging to the Texas & New Orleans Bailroad Company. W. A. Powell & Company, Lit., availed itself of all these services and privileges which were stipulated for by the Interstate Commerce Commission tariff and included in the fifteen cent rate charged on export freight.
There is not now and was not at the time these shipments moved, any local market for lumber at Sabine, the population of which place does not exceed fifty in number. Appellees have never done any local business at that point. For the year 1905 there was exported through the port of Sabine 14,667,670 feet of lumber; for the year 1906, 39,554,000 feet. The shipments in controversy, together with other shipments of lumber to Sabine and Sabine Pass, constitute a large *372and constantly recurring course of foreign commerce passing out through the port of Sabine. The motion for rehearing is overruled.

Reformed and affirmed.

Writ of error refused.