C. O. Struse & Sons Co. v. Reading Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

Sears, Roebuck & Company has an extensive retail merchandise establishment in the thirty-fifth ward of Philadelphia, having a floor space of forty-three acres and approximately five thousand employees. It handles fourteen thousand different articles of merchandise and has one million seven hundred and fifty thousand customers residing in several states* with whom its business is transacted largely by mail orders. Its merchandise when purchased is shipped in, and when sold is shipped out, largely by rail. This makes an enormous freight and mail order business,…