United States v. Union Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. The facts, which involve the construction of paragraph three of § 10 of the Act to Regulate Commerce as amended June 18, 1910, and the jurisdiction of the District Court . of offenses thereunder, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
This is a writ of error under the Criminal Appeals Act of March 2, 1907 (ch. 2564; -34 Stat. 1246), to review a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida sustaining a demurrer to an indictment for fraudulently misrepresenting the weights of certain shipments of lumber, in violation :of the third paragraph of § 10 of the Act to Regulate Commerce, as amended June 18,1910 (ch. 309; 36 Stat. 539, 549). The demurrer was sustained upon the ground that the statute, as construed by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Davis v. United States, 104 Fed. Rep.…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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