United States v. Southern Pac. Co.

(charging jury). As you already know, several actions on which you are to find verdicts are being prosecuted by the United States against the Southern Pacific Company, charging it with a violation of Act June 29, 1906, c. 3594, § 1, 34 Stat. 607 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1907, p. 918]. That statute, so far as it is necessary for your information, provides that no railroad company carrying stock, such as “cattle, sheep, and swine” between two states—

“shall confine the same in cars of any description for a period longer than 28 consecutive hours without unloading the same in a humane manner into…