Mellon

(after stating the facts as above). An award of reparation is authorized whenever rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, or practices are found to be unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, unduly or unreasonably prejudicial, or otherwise in violation of the Interstate Commerce Commission Act (section 206 [e], Transportation Act, supra), and, if the Commission has found that the rates in question wore unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, unduly or unreasonably prejudicial, or otherwise in violation of tho Interstate Commerce Commission Act, and the finding is supported by competent testimony, the inquiry of the courts is at an end. If, on the other hand, no such finding was made, or if the finding is not supported by any competent testimony, or if the award of reparation was based on an erroneous view of the law, the judgment should be reversed.

There was no complaint before the Commission concerning the domestic rate, or the export rate, as such. The complaint was directed solely against the regulation providing that the export rate through San Francisco applied only to freight originally consigned through, with rail, port, and ocean charges fully…