In re H. J. Quimby Freight Forwarding Co.

LOWELL, District Judge.

The respondent in this case was incorporated as a “common carrier of property or persons.” Some of its officers testified that a large part of its business was the buying and selling of horses, hay, grain, wagons, harnesses, etc., and that most of its business was outside the usual business of a common carrier. An examination of the books, which were not produced before the referee, leaves little weight in this testimony. The cor*140poration bought the articles above mentioned, as every express company and every carrier of this sort must do. These purchases do not make a…