International Textbook Co. v. Pigg
Supreme Court of the United States
• EBBOB TO THE SUPBEME COURT OP THE STATE OP KANSAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of § 1283 of the General Statutes of Kansas of 1901, are stated in the opinion. The contract between the plaintiff and the defendant for the shipment by the plaintiff from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to the defendant in Topeka, Kansas, of printed and documentary merchandise for a pecuniary consideration, was a. transaction of interstate commerce.
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• EBBOB TO THE SUPBEME COURT OP THE STATE OP KANSAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of § 1283 of the General Statutes of Kansas of 1901, are stated in the opinion. The contract between the plaintiff and the defendant for the shipment by the plaintiff from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to the defendant in Topeka, Kansas, of printed and documentary merchandise for a pecuniary consideration, was a. transaction of interstate commerce. Rearick v. Pennsylvania, 203 U. S. 507, 512; Swift v. United States, 196 U. S. 375, 398. Plaintiff’s business is essentially and practically that of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mu. Justice Harlan
delivered the opinion of the court.
This action was brought by the International Textbook Company in one of the courts of Kansas — the court of Topeka — to recover from Pigg, the defendant in error, the sum of $79.60 with interest as due the plaintiff under a written contract between him and that company made in 1905. The case was tried upon agreed facts and judgment was rendered in favor.of the defendant for his costs. That judgment was affirmed in a state District Court, which held that the plaintiff was not entitled to maintain the' action, and the latter judgment was…
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