State v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, the Great Northern Railway Company, the Chicago Great Western Railway Company, and the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company were indicted under Laws 1895, c. 149, for refusing to turn over unclaimed freight to a licensed public warehouseman after twenty days from the receipt thereof.
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The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, the Great Northern Railway Company, the Chicago Great Western Railway Company, and the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company were indicted under Laws 1895, c. 149, for refusing to turn over unclaimed freight to a licensed public warehouseman after twenty days from the receipt thereof. Demurrers to the indictment were overruled with leave to defendants to plead, and the cases certified from the district court for Ramsey county, Brill, J. Laws 1895, c. 149, is a valid exercise of legislative power. Brass v. Stoeser, 153 U. S.…
1Opinion of the Court
MITCHELL. J.
The defendants in these actions were severally indicted for a refusal to turn over to a public warehouseman certain goods which had not been called for by the consignee, pursuant to the provisions of Laws 1895, c. 149, § 11, entitled
“An act to license and regulate the business of storage companies and public warehousemen (other than warehousemen of grain in bulk) and to provide a penalty for violation of the same.”
Section one of the act provides that
“the governor may license any suitable person, persons, or corpor*384ations established under the laws of this state, and having their…
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