Nichols & Cox Lumber Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan; Clarence W. Sessions, Judge. The Nichols & Cox Lumber Company was convicted of accepting and receiving a rebate on an interstate shipment of lumber, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARRINGTON, Circuit judge.
The defendant below was indicted and convicted upon three counts, in each of which it was alleged that the defendant did “knowingly and willfully solicit, accept, and receive,” from the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Company, “a rebate,” in a sum stated “in respect to the transportation” of property in interstate commerce, “whereby such property was transported * * * at a rate and charge less” by the sum so stated “than the rate * * * named in the schedules and tariffs * * * published and filed and posted” by the certain common carriers named in the indictment. The(…
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