Denver & R. G. R. v. Baer Bros. Mercantile Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. Action by the Baer Bros. Mercantile Company against the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
It is 923 miles from St. Louis, Mo., to Pueblo, Colo., and the Missouri Pacific Railway Company operates a railroad between those_towns. It is 160 miles from Pueblo to Lead-ville, Colo., and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company operates a railroad between those cities. Between July 11, 1902, and March 17, 1907, these companies carried thousands of pounds of beer from William J. Lemp Brewing Company at St. Louis to Leadville', in Colo., for Baer Bros. Mercantile Company, a corporation, at the lawfully established rates. The act of 1906 to amend the act of February 4,…
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- Denver & R. G. R. v. Baer Bros. Mercantile Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1913
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