Hoover v. Penna. R. R.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 143, July T., 1893, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Feb. T., 1892, No. 17, on verdict for plaintiffs, A. M. Hoover et al. Trespass for damages for alleged unlawful discrimination.
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Appeal, No. 143, July T., 1893, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Feb. T., 1892, No. 17, on verdict for plaintiffs, A. M. Hoover et al. Trespass for damages for alleged unlawful discrimination. At the trial, before Fijrst, P. J., it appeared that, in 1881, the defendant agreed to transport coal from the Snow Shoe District to the works of the Bellefonte Iron & Nail Company for the sum of thirty cents per ton, provided the nail company consumed at least twenty tons per day. It appeared that the coal was to be tariffed at the usual public rate of fifty cents per ton, and that…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green,
The third section of the seventeenth article of the constitution of 1874 is in the following words :
“ Section 3. All individuals, associations and corporations shall have equal right to have persons and property transported over railroads and canals, and no undue or unreasonable discrimination shall be made, in charges for, or in facilities for, transportation of freight or passengers, within the state, or coming from, or going to any other state. Persons and property transported over any railroad shall be delivered at any station, at charges not exceeding the…
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