Lewis Pub. Co. v. Wyman
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. Suit by the Rewis Publishing Company against Prank Wyman and another. Judgment for defendants (168 Ped. 752), and complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. Suit by the Rewis Publishing Company against Prank Wyman and another. Judgment for defendants (168 Ped. 752), and complainant appeals. This suit was begun March 18, 1907, by the Lewis Publishing Company, the publisher oí the Woman’s Magazine, against Frank Wyman and James L. Stice, respectively the postmaster and assistant postmaster at St. Louis, Mo., to enjoin them from depriving it of the right to send its publication through the mails as second-class matter at the postage rate of one cent per pound.…
1Opinion of the CourtHook, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts, as above) . The principal contention on this appeal is that the Woman’s Magazine, a monthly publication the subscription price of which was 10 cents a year, had been fully accorded the right to transmission through the mails as second-class matter at the pound rate of postage, and the Postmaster General annulled it without the hearing provided by law. Act March 3, 1901, c. 851, 31 Stat. 1107 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2655). The decision of the Postmaster General proceeded upon the assumption that the case was one of an original application for entry of the…
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