Northern P. Ry. Co. v. Department of Public Works
Decision Date | 29 October 1925 |
Docket Number | 19407. |
Citation | 240 P. 362,136 Wash. 389 |
Parties | NORTHERN PAC. RY. CO. v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS et al. |
Court | Washington Supreme Court |
Department 1.
Appeal from Superior Court, Thurston County; Wilson, Judge.
Complaint by the Roosevelt Transfer & Fuel Company before the Department of Public Works to secure reparation from the Northern Pacific Railway Company. From a judgment affirming an order of the Department of Public Works directing the Northern Pacific Railway Company to pay to the Department of Public Works a sum to be disbursed to the Roosevelt Transfer & Fuel Company as reparation for overcharges on shipments of wood, the Northern Pacific Railway Company appeals. Decisions of trial court and Department of Public Works reversed.
Geo. T Reid and L. B. da Ponte, both of Seattle, for appellant.
John H Dunbar and H. C. Brodie, both of Olympia, and Wm. Phelps Totten, of Seattle, for respondents.
This appeal is from a judgment affirming an order the department of public works, directing appellant to pay to the department of public works $242.29, to be disbursed to the Roosevelt Transfer & Fuel Company as reparation of overcharges on shipments of wood, which charges were found by the department of public works to be unjust, unreasonable and excessive. The matter was before the trial court on review proceedings from the order of reparation made by the department.
The proceedings were originated by a complaint by the Roosevelt Transfer & Fuel Company, which alleged, after certain formal matters:
The complaint was dated June 5, 1922. There was attached to it a schedule of shipments of 22 carloads of short fuel, with the rates paid and overcharges on the cars, to the complainant between September 13, 1921, and April 11, 1922.
The department made findings as follows:
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