Supreme Court · 1958 INSC 24 · Decided 24 March 1958
Raigarh Jute Mills LTD. v. Eastern Railway and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1958 INSC 24 · [1959] 1 S.C.R. 236
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 231/1954
- Decided
- 24 March 1958
- Bench
- SUDHI RANJAN DAS, VIVIAN BOSE, T.L. VENKATARAMA AIYYAR, S.K. DAS, P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
236 SUPREME COURT REPOR'FS [1959) RAIGARH JUTE MILLS LTD. v. EASTERN RAILWAY AND ANOTHER (S. R. DAS c. J., VENKATARAMA AIYAR, s. K. DAS, GAJENDRAGADKAR and VIVIAN BOSE JJ.) Railway Rates~Freight charges-Complaint of u11duc pri!­ ference-Unreasonable and excessive rates-Competitive from many railway booking stations outside the State as there was no other means of transport both for bringing jute to the mills and for carrying the finished products to ports for exl'ort to foreign countries; the jute mills in West Bengal and Madras had facilities for direct shipment of their
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