Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Sabine Tram Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE FIRST SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. • ’ The question in the case is whether' shipments of lumber on local bills of lading from one point in Texas to another point, in . Texas, destined for export under the circumstances presently to be detailed, were intrastate or . foreign Commerce.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE FIRST SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. • ’ The question in the case is whether' shipments of lumber on local bills of lading from one point in Texas to another point, in . Texas, destined for export under the circumstances presently to be detailed, were intrastate or . foreign Commerce. The action was brought' by defendant in error, here called the Sabine Company, against the railroad companies (we shall so designate them unless it be, necessary to distinguish them) to recover the 'sum-of $1,788.33 alleged to be due for overcharges…
1Opinion of the Court
After stating the facts as above,
Mr. Justice . Mc-Kenna
delivered the opinion of the court.
If we may regard the essential character of the shipments we can have no hesitation in pronouncing them to have been in interstate commerce. This conclusion seems indeed to bq determined by the last finding of fact. It is there declared that “the shipments in controversy, together with other shipments of lumber to Sabine and •Sabine Pass, constitute a large and constantly recurring course of foreign commerce passing out through the port of Sabine.”
If the shipments were foreign commerce it is hardly…
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