Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Goodridge
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. This was an action at law by the firm ,of Goodridge & Marfell, coal merchants, carrying on the business of mining coal at Erie, Colorado, and of selling the same at Denver, against the Union Pacific Railway' Company, to recover triple damages, under a statute of Colorado, for an alleged unjust discrimination in freights upon coal from Erie to Denver.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. This was an action at law by the firm ,of Goodridge & Marfell, coal merchants, carrying on the business of mining coal at Erie, Colorado, and of selling the same at Denver, against the Union Pacific Railway' Company, to recover triple damages, under a statute of Colorado, for an alleged unjust discrimination in freights upon coal from Erie to Denver. The statute which was the basis of this action, together with a corresponding clause of the state constitution of Colorado, so far as the same are material to this…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bbown
This case involves 'the construction of an act of the legislature of Colorado passed in 1885, prohibiting railroads from charging one person* or corporation a greater sum than it charges any other, fo^ a like service upon like conditions and utfder similar circumstances. The statute is of the same nature as the Interstate Commerce Act, and like that was designed to prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in rates for the carriage of-.persons and property.
1. The first assignment of error is taken to the ruling of the court sustaining the demurrer to the second answer of the defendant, in…
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