Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co. v. Lee

(after stating the facts as above). Considering this cause upon the evidence set out in the record, the question presented to us is whether a foreign or an intrastate character attaches to the rail movements of the commodities imported into Wilmington, and there reshipped, in the manner above described, to interior points in the state of North Carolina; that is to say: What is the essential character of the commerce? The correct answer to that question is the law of this ease.

Using for illustration nitrate of soda, the movement of which is eoneededly typical, complainants contend that the…