United States v. Terminal R.

EVAN A. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Defendant in error was charged with having violated the so-called Twenty-Eight Hour Live Stock Law (Comp. St. §§ 8651-8654). The facts were stipulated, and a judgment discharging the carrier pronounced.

Three separate violations were charged: The first involved a car of live stock shipped from Cabool, Mo., to the National Stockyards near East St. Louis. Live stock was confined in the car for 34 hours and 20 minutes prior to the delivery to defendant, which took 2 hours and 10 minutes to make delivery to the National Stockyards, the nearest possible unloading point.…