Legal Opinion
United States v. Merchants' & Miners' Transp. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia
Decided March 8, 1911PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Indictment of the Merchants’ & Miners’ Transportation Company, the Atlantic Coast Tine Railroad Company, and the Seaboard Air Tine Railway Company for violating the interstate commerce act as amended.
1Opinion of the Court
SPEER, District Judge.
Yesterday counsel for the defendant, in cross-examining the witness then on the stand, propounded the following question:
“Q. Hr, Lucas,' In reference to these three cars, shipped January 8, 7, and 10, 1908, for which you charged 15 cents, and afterwards on May 29, 1909, collected 10 cents, why did you accept 10 cents, when you had charged and billed the shipment at 15 cents? A. That is because the shipment had at first been billed in error.”
Counsel for the government objected to the question and answer. After an extended argument by both sides, the court requested Mr.…
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