Adams Express Co. v. Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Co.

The provisions contained in section 10 of the interstate-commerce act, approved February 4th, 1887 (3 Fed. Stat. Ann. 835), declare it to be a fraud and make it a penal offense for any person delivering property for transportation to any common carrier subject to the provisions of that act, knowingly and wilfully, by “false billing, false classification, false weighing, false representation of the contents of the package, or false report of weight, or by any other device or means, whether with or without the consent or connivance of the carrier,” to obtain transportation for such property at…