Armour Packing Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS POR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts are stated in the opinion. A shipper can be guilty of an offense under the Elkins Act only if and when he is guilty of some bad faith or fraudulent conduct in using some kind of device intentionally dishonest or some underhand method of obtaining a rebate, concession or discrimination.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS POR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts are stated in the opinion. A shipper can be guilty of an offense under the Elkins Act only if and when he is guilty of some bad faith or fraudulent conduct in using some kind of device intentionally dishonest or some underhand method of obtaining a rebate, concession or discrimination. It was never intended that he should be held guilty if he honestly believed he was entitled to the rate at which he openly shipped. The purpose of the Elkins Act was to enlarge the character of devices specified in the act of 1889, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
These cases are here upon writs of certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. By stipulation there was a single petition for certiorari and the cases in the Circuit Court of Appeals were considered together on the record in the Armour Packing Company case, and, as it is conceded in the brief of the learned counsel for the petitioners that the differences in the cases are unsubstantial, the same course may be followed here.
Each of the petitioners was .convicted in the District Court of the United States, Western District of Missouri, for violation of the…
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