St. Joseph & G. I. Ry. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas; John C. Pollock, Judge. Action by the United States against the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company. Judgment for the plaintiff on an agreed statement of facts, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas; John C. Pollock, Judge. Action by the United States against the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company. Judgment for the plaintiff on an agreed statement of facts, and defendant brings error. The United States, plaintiff in the court below, instituted a civil action against the defendant, plaintiff in error, to recover penalties for violations of the Hours0 of Service Act of Congress, approved March 4, 1907. 34 Stat. 1415. There were two counts in the complaint for two violations; but the defendant confessed…
1Opinion of the CourtTrieber, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The contention of the defendant is that the act of Congress does not apply to an employé on a work train, operated wholly within one state, although the train was brought from another state and the material transported was intended for use on the roadbed of the defendant beyond the point where the offense was committed, the road being a through highway of interstate commerce.
*352[1] In our opinion this is too narrow a view to take of this act, which was intended, as has been repeatedly held by the Supreme Court, as well as the inferior' courts of the United…
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