State v. Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against tbe 'Southern Railway Company, heard by Judge ill. U. Justice and a jury, at the March Term, 1906, of the Superior Court of Bueice. This is an indictment against the defendant for shipping cattle in violation of certain quarantine rules and regulations adopted by the North Carolina Board of Agriculture.
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INDICTMENT against tbe 'Southern Railway Company, heard by Judge ill. U. Justice and a jury, at the March Term, 1906, of the Superior Court of Bueice. This is an indictment against the defendant for shipping cattle in violation of certain quarantine rules and regulations adopted by the North Carolina Board of Agriculture. The Congress of the United States by an act passed May 29, 1884, established a Bureau of Animal Industry, with authority to provide for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases. Compiled Statutes of U. S., 1901, p. 299. By section 3…
1Opinion of the Court
Hoke, J.,
after stating the case: The statutes of North Carolina, Laws 1901, chapter 479, sec. 4, subsec. b, authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture, by and with the advice and consent of the board, “to make investigations adapted to promote the improvement of milk and beef cattle, and especially investigations relating to the diseases of cattle and other domestic animals, and shall publish and distribute from time to time information relative to any contagious diseases of stock and suggest remedies therefor, and shall have power in such cases -to quarantine the infected animals and to…
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