Grand Rapids & I. Ry. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Eastern District of Michigan; Arthur J. Tuttle, Judge. Action by the United States against the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Company. There was a judgment for the United States, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARRINGTON, Circuit Judge.
The railway company seeks reversal of judgment entered against it in the District Court upon a verdict directed in favor of the United States. The action was to recover penalties for alleged violations of the first proviso to section 2 of the federal Plours of Service Act (34 Stat. 1416). The services were rendered by two of the company’s telegraph operators in 1916, on March 13 to March 17, inclusive, in telegraph and telephone offices maintained by the company at Elmira station and K. S. tower, and within its yard located there. Elmira station is about…
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