Territory ex rel. McLean & Co. v. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
New Mexico Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court of Santa Fe county, before John R. McFie, Associate Justice. This is not an inspection law within the meaning of the exception found in the Constitution of the United States, art. 1, sec. 10, par. 2. All such laws must be subject to the revision and control of Congress.
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Appeal from the district court of Santa Fe county, before John R. McFie, Associate Justice. This is not an inspection law within the meaning of the exception found in the Constitution of the United States, art. 1, sec. 10, par. 2. All such laws must be subject to the revision and control of Congress. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1203; Turner v. Maryland, 107 U. S. 38-55; Gibbons v. Ogdon, 107 U. 8. 49-50. All definitions of inspection laws preclude any purpose which can be accomplished by this New Mexico statute. BurrilFs Law Dictionary; Bouvier’s Law Dictionary; Clintsman v. Northop, 8 Cow.…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT.
PARKER, J.
On the seventh day of September, A. D., 1901, Levi A. Hughes, agent of E. J. McLean & Company, of Denver, Colorado, offered for shipment over the defendant company’s railroad, one bale of dry hides, weighing 970 pounds, and containing twenty-nine steer hides and seventeen cow hides, consigned to E. J. McLean & Company, Denver, Colorado, and delivered same upon the depot platform of said railroad company, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, for transportation from Santa Fe to Denver. T. J. Helm, general agent of said railroad company, acting for the company, declined to…
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