Legal Opinion
Perkel v. Pennsylvania Railroad
City of New York Municipal Court
Decided June 30, 1933PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGentjng, J.
The plaintiff is a wholesale produce merchant. As such the plaintiff has dealt in watermelons for twenty-six years. During the season of 1929 the plaintiff dealt in carload lots of watermelons on the auction market at the Manhattan produce yards of the defendant in New Jersey.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the defendant, is a common carrier, engaged in the transportation by railroad of goods for hire in interstate commerce, and, therefore, subject to the provisions of the Federal act to regulate commerce, as amended (U. S. Code, tit. 49, § 1).
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