Edward Douglass White

“ The clear effect of the decision was to declare that one who has obtained from a common carrier transportation of goods from one state to another at a rate, specified in the bill of lading, less than the published schedule rates filed with and approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and in force at the time, whether or not he knew that the rate obtained was less than the schedule rate, is not entitled to recover the goods, or damages for their detention, upon the tender of payment of the amount of charges named in the bill of lading, or of any sum less than the schedule charges ”

“ Rep. 802. Upon the authority of that case the supreme court of Alabama denied the liability of a railroad company in a case of similar character to that under review. Southern R. Co. v. Harrison, 119 Ala. 539, 43 L. R. A. 385, 72 Am. St. Rep. ”