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Note 96 — Chapter XII · OIL AND BEEF.

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Rice v. R. R., 4 I. C. C. Decis. 131; 5 ibid., 193, 415. Railroads commenced charging for barrel packages in 1888, and in a case tried in 1892 against the Reading, Boston & Maine, and other roads the Commission ordered them to cease, but they did not, and damages were awarded two years later from 1888 to 1894. A similar order to desist from charging for the barrel was issued against the Pennsylvania in September 1890 and it complied. I. C. C. Rep. 1895, pp. 33–35.

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