Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. Action by the United States against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway .Company. Judgment for the United States, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Act June 29, 1906, c. 3594, 34 Stat. 607 (U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1907, p. 918; Supp. 1909, p. 1178), to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit, provides that no railroad company carrying animals from one state inte another,_ etc., “shall confine the same in cars, boats or vessels of any description for a period longer than 28 consecutive hours without unloading the same in a humane manner into properly equipped pens for rest, water and feeding, for a period of at least 5 consecutive hours, unless prevented by storm or by other accidental or unavoidable causes which…
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