Reid v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN under section 2361, Revisal, 1905, for wrongful failure to receiye freight for shipment, tried before Justice, J., and a jury, at January (Special) Term, 1909, of Ruthekfokd.
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ActioN under section 2361, Revisal, 1905, for wrongful failure to receiye freight for shipment, tried before Justice, J., and a jury, at January (Special) Term, 1909, of Ruthekfokd. There was evidence, on the part of plaintiffs, tending to show that, on or about 25 June, 1906’, the plaintiff firm, having, received an order for a car load of shingles from one James Had-dox, at Scottsville, Tenn., applied to P. B. Gunnels, who was then agent of defendant company at Rutherfordton, N. 0., for a car; the same 'was furnished and loaded with the shingles by plaintiffs, on 2 July, shipping…
1Opinion of the Court
Hoke, J.,
after stating tbe case: Tbe validity of these penalty statutes has been before tbe Court for consideration in many recent cases, and, in Efland v. Railroad, 146 N. C., 138, this being a decision on a statute of kindred nature, tbe Court, in speaking to tbe power of a government to enact regulations of this character, said: “Tbe right of tbe State to establish regu*758lations for these public-service corporations, and over business enterprises in which the owners, corporate or individual, have devoted their property to a public use, and to. enforce these .regulations by appropriate…
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