Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-10-31 | Page 11 | May Revolutionize Refund Recovery in Rate Cases

I I MAY REVOLUTiONIZE r REfUND iD RECOVERY COVY Y iN RA IE CASES CAS t MINNEAPOLIS K APOLIS Oct 31 Tho 31 The Tho con con- o ur of the tho two vo principal statutes statutes stat stat- It at utes rl the collection of refunds for interstate shipments of commodities I is attacked in in a suit just dust begun hero The Tho suit if sustained will according to attorneys revolutionize the method of procedure to recover refunds s in nearly rato rate cases for overcharges es during durin during dur dur- in ing thu final settlement of the famous famous' Minnesota rato rate case caso fixing Axing passenger and freight rates and recently sustained by the United Unite States court The Tho suit filed was by an adjustment company for lor an au elevator olo concern in Nashville Minn against tho the Minneapolis Minneapolis Minne Minne- apolis St. St Paul Sault Ste Sto Marie Maria Railroad Rail Rail- Rail Railroad road company to recover overcharges ar c. c on six twenty cars of grain crain shipped to Minneapolis and involves tho the validity of an act passed in 1909 placing the right light to sue suo for recovery of overcharges in tho the hands of the attorney general It also attacks the tho transit and proper proper- proportionate proportionate rato rate law passed in 1911 lUll on the tho ground round that such sucha a law is not based on onan onan an equitable of rates on distances and because the original shipper shipper ship ship- per cannot bo be bound by any condition of rates for sending the tho consignment beyond the first dent destination anon The Tho suit is tho the first involving railway railway railway rail rail- way rates to be instituted outside of the attorney generals general office