Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-09-18 | Page 16 | Firm Must Pay for I. C. C. Transcript

Firm Must Pay for . I. (j. C. Transcript In a declaim of tha auprama court wnttaa by Juitlco j. W. Cherry and handed down today, Hiaainger A ca a corporation doing bualnaaa In Bait lJa In tha buying and eelllng of hldaa. pelta and furm. muat comply with tha finding of tha Third dlatrict court and pay to Franklin W. Allan of Naw Yerk. who waa tha official reporter of tha Interatato com-mere com-mere aommlaalon. fllHI.M. Tha action la ana at law by Allan ta recover faaa for fumtah-Ing fumtah-Ing Bleelnger A Co. a copy of tha official report of certain proceed-tnga proceed-tnga before tha (nteratata commerce com-merce aommlaalon. Tha Halt Lake cool peny ordered an official raport of tha proceedlnga concerning tho reaeonableneaa and propriety of tha deecrlptlon. ralaa. regulation, ratlnga and minimum welghta provided pro-vided In a propoeed claaalflcatlon prepared by A apadal committee appointed by tha United HI a tea railroad admlnletratlon to eonaoll-data eonaoll-data tha official Waatera and Southern ahualfloatlona. lettar tha firm dlaeovarad that It waa not what It wanted, and in a letter ta tha Eaatern firm In cancelling tha contract aald: "In ordering from yo. In tha ftret place wa eipected to find all i tha Information wa wantad In ona voluma and did not think that wa war going, to gat A full library." Tha Eaatern firm In reply agraed to cancellation of tha order affective af-fective At tha ond of September 17, Ilia, but declined to cancel tha vrder far that part of tha report re-port already delivered and to and on tha data mentioned. Kept am her IT. Bill waa aant for. that prt ef tha raport mentioned for III pagea at Vj cenla per page, aggregating ag-gregating UOtT.tl. Tha Bait Lake firm refused payment, ault waa Instituted and tha Judgment of the trial court waa In favor of tha reporter, from thla Kissinger A Co. appealed to tha auprama eourt. That tribunal affirmed tha trial court, and In conoludlng tha opinion opin-ion aald: "There la no claim of misrepresentation misrepre-sentation or fraud against tha plaintiff. It may well ba that tha reports proved uaeleea and of no value to tha defendant, and that In volume and price they exceeded Ita eipectatlene. but In tha abeence af aoma mleconduet on tha part of tha plaintiff tha defendant cannot ba relieved from tha ooneequenoee of Ita 1m providence merely beoauoe tha bargain la burdeneome and unprofitable. un-profitable. Judgment affirmed.'