St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Williams

delivered the opinion of the court.. By a statute of Arkansas, regulating rates for the transportation of passengers between points within the State, any railroad company that demands or collects a greater compensation than the statute prescribes is subjected “for every such offense” to a penalty of “not less than fifty dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars and costs of suit, including a reasonable attorney’s fee,” and the aggrieved passenger is given a right to recover the same in a civil action. Act April 4, 1887, Laws 1887, p. 227; Kirby’s Digest, 1904, §6620; Act March 4, 1915,…