United States v. New York Cent. & H. R. R. Co.

HOUGH, District Judge.

The substantial offense charged in the indictment is that pursuant to agreement made in 1898, between a duly accredited agent of the defendant and a similarly accredited agent of the Brooklyn Cooperage Company, certain goods were transported *294in 1903 from Poplar Bluffs, Iowa, to New York City at less than the tariff rates; such result being accomplished by an agreement for rebates from the legal tariff, which rebates were paid by the defendant in 1903 and 1904. The goods in question were transported over the lines of several railroads, of which the Missouri-Pacific…