Webster Coal & Coke Co. v. Cassatt
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. The Webster Coal and' Coke Company commenced an action at law in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, defendant, to recover damages for its alleged violation of the Interstate Commerce Act of February 4,1887, by discriminating against plaintiff in the allowance of freight rates on coal and coke.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. The Webster Coal and' Coke Company commenced an action at law in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, defendant, to recover damages for its alleged violation of the Interstate Commerce Act of February 4,1887, by discriminating against plaintiff in the allowance of freight rates on coal and coke. The defendant pleaded not guilty. In the opinion below it is stated.: “After issue was thus joined,-and before, the time for the trial of the action,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company did not except to the order nor attempt, to prosecute a writ of error therefrom if that were possible; the plaintiffs in error, who were officers of the company, excepted and carried the case up on this writ of error! They were not parties to the case between the Coal Company and the Railroad Company, had no property in the books and papers referred to, were mere custodians as officers, and any rights of theirs were not made to appear to be involved in the disclosures sought. The order as to them was purely interlocutory, not imposing penalty or liability,…
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