Legal Opinion
Newport News & M. Val. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 3, 1894No. 45PublishedCited by 14 opinions
- In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. ■ •
1Opinion of the Court
BURTON, Circuit Judge.
This was a suit by the United States to recover from the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Company the statutory penalty imposed by sections 4386, 4387, and 4388 of the Revised Statutes of the United States for the detention of cattle while being transported over appellant’s line of railroad, for a longer period than 28 consecutive hours, without being unloaded for rest, food, and water. There was a verdict of guilty, from which, the railroad company has appealed. The statute involved is as follows:
"See. 4380. Ne railroad company within the United States whose road forms…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Weeks v. Wilson Transit Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1894
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- United States v. Baltimore & O. S. W. R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1908
- In re I. Rheinstrom & Sons Co.District Court, E.D. Kentucky · 1913
- San Pedro, L. A. & S. L. R. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1915
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