Crutcher v. Kentucky
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR “TO THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE STATE OP KENTUCKY. The case was stated by the court as follows This case arose at Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, upon an indictment found against Crutcher, the plaintiff, in error, in'the Franklin Circuit Court, for acting and doing business as agent for the United States Express Company, alleged to be an' express company not incorporated by the laws of Kentucky, but trading and doing business as a common carrier, by express, of…
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ERROR “TO THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE STATE OP KENTUCKY. The case was stated by the court as follows This case arose at Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, upon an indictment found against Crutcher, the plaintiff, in error, in'the Franklin Circuit Court, for acting and doing business as agent for the United States Express Company, alleged to be an' express company not incorporated by the laws of Kentucky, but trading and doing business as a common carrier, by express, of goods, merchandise, money and other-things of value in land through the county and State aforesaid, without having any…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Bradley,
after stating the case, delivered, the opinion of the court.
We regret that we are unable to concur with the learned Court of Appeals of Kentucky in its views on this subject. The law of Kentucky, which is brought in question by the case, requires from the agent of every express company not -incorporated by J’-e laws of K&. .icky a license from the auditor of p"hlic °ccounts, before he can carry on arv business for said company in the State. This, of course, embraces interstate business as well as business confined wholly within the State. It is a prohibition against the…
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