Aron v. Pennsylvania R.

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

Appellants arc butchers and slaughterhouse proprietors who, in the course of their business of buying and slaughtering livestock during the times here in question, paid to the appellee the charges due upon a number of carloads of livestock consigned to them. These shipments originated at points so remote from their destinations — -Jersey City, N. J., Brooklyn, N. Y., and New York City, N. Y. —as to require a stop for food, water, and rest to comply with the Twenty-Eight Hour Law (34 Stat. 607, 608 [45 U.S.C.A. §§ 71, 72]). Some of these stops were made at a public…