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Show COURT DECIDES RAILROAD RATE SALT LAKE CITY. UUh. April 19 Judce Ritchie In the Third district court today decided that a freight tariff tar-iff filed with the Interstate Commerce commission takes precedence of any rate granted by agents or ofllclals of a common carrier, The Consolidated Wagon & Machine company made certain cer-tain shipments of hay from Spencer, Idaho, to Yellowstone, Mont, which were accepted and paid for at the, rate of 11 cents per hundred pounds The Oregon Short Line, over which the shipments were made, sud for $152.78, claiming at the rate of 10 cents a hundred, fixed, as alleged, by the tariff; filed with the Interstate commerce commission. Judgment was given the plaintiff. |