Interstate Compress Co. v. Colley

This action was commenced in the district court of Comanche county by I. F. Colley, as public weigher of said county, against the Interstate Compress Company to recover the penalty as damages as provided in section 1747, Rev. Laws 1910, for violating certain portions of section 1745, Rev. Laws 1910. The third amended petition alleged the plaintiff was the public weigher and maintained scales at Lawton, OMa., during the years 1917 and 1918. and the defendant company was not a public weigher, but installed scales near its compress and held itself out to the public as a public wéigher and a…