Grand Rapids & I. Ry. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the,United States for the Western District of Michigan; Clarence W. Sessions, Judge. The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Company was convicted of rebating, and it brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARRINGTON, Circuit Judge.
The railway company was convicted of having paid rebates in March, April, and May, 1911, upon certain shipments of lumber from Grand Rapids, Mich., to various destinations. Judgment was entered on the verdict and a fine imposed; the company prosecutes .error. The proceeding was based on section 1 of the statute of Congress commonly known as the Elkins-Act, approved February 19, 1903 (chapter 708, 32 Stat. 847), as amended June 29, 1906 (chapter 3591, 34 Stat. 584, 587 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1911, p. 1309]).
The alleged rebates grew out of admitted abuses of transit…
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