Union Trust Co. of New York v. Atchison, T. & S. F. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
Proceedings by Wilson T. Keenan and others against the receiver of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad Company, appointed in the suit against that road by the Union Trust Company of Kew York, to determine the legality of terminal charges made by the receiver.
1Opinion of the Court
GROSSCUP, District Judge.
The petition of Wilson T. Keenan, and the subsequent petition of Dowd & Keefer and others, with the answers of the railroad company thereto, raise the question of the legality of certain so-called “terminal charges” demanded by the defendant. The petitioners are commission merchants at the Union Stock-Yards & Transit Company’s yards, and have been engaged for many years in receiving consignments of cattle from the West and Southwest. The railroad company is'a common carrier, engaged, among other things, in transporting live stock from Kansas City and other points to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Covington Stock-Yards Co. v. KeithSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
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