C. V. in Antidiscriminative Suit for Stone

Standard Stone & Lime Co. Claim Discrimination Against Them.

The Standard Lime & Stone Co. and the Washington Building Lime Co. operating near Martinsburg, both of which operations have offices in Baltimore, have filed a complaint before the interstate commerse commission against the C. V. Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic, the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia and a number of other roads accepting the product of these companies from the C. V.

The Standard Lime & Stone Co. quarries limestone and manufactures lime at Martinsburg and the Washington Building Co. operates limestone quarries at Bakerton and also at Engle, W. Va. The complaint is that the C. V. Railroad has put into force rates which seriously discriminate against the Martinsburg plants in favor of plants at Bunker Hill, in the same state, and it is charged in the complaint that the railroad company has refused to remedy the grievance of these two corporations on the ground that it has the right to make such rates “for the express purpose of establishing a lime and limestone enterprise at Bunker Hill.”