Commonwealth ex rel. Lawson v. Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This action was brought against defendants, to recover certain penalties alleged to have beén incurred by them, for paying out notes of an amount less than five dollars, issued by banks of other States, contrary to the provisions of the 48th section of an Act of Assembly of this Commonwealth, entitled “ An Act regulating.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This action was brought against defendants, to recover certain penalties alleged to have beén incurred by them, for paying out notes of an amount less than five dollars, issued by banks of other States, contrary to the provisions of the 48th section of an Act of Assembly of this Commonwealth, entitled “ An Act regulating. Banks,” approved April 16,1850. The notes were passed by the conductors and ticket agents of the defendants, in their cars and ticket offices, on that part of their road lying within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered
by Black, J.
— This was an action against the defendants, (a corporation,) to recover the penalty imposed by statute for paying out bank notes of a less denomination than five dollars. The record raises certain questions, which have been fully discussed by counsel on two occasions, and very carefully considered by all the members of this court. The conclusions to which we have severally arrived are so various, that I must be understood as expressing no more than my own opinion, though I think it probable that a majority of my brethren will concur in the…
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