United States v. Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Action for a penalty by tbe United States against the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
This is an action for the penalty imposed by the act of Congress of June 29, 1906. By agreement trial by jury was waived and the cause heard by the court. It is one of several like, or at least similar, cases. The questions involved arise out of this state of facts:
A car load of 150 hogs were shipped from the National Stockyards in Chicago, consigned to A. H. March Packing Company at Bridgeport. They were unloaded, watered, and fed in Pittsburgh, and there transferred to car P. U. 647680 and transported over defendant’s railroad to destination. The place of delivery…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- St. Joseph Stockyards Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1911
- Chicago, B. & Q. R. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1912
- United States v. Lehigh Valley R.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1913
- United States v. Chicago Junction Ry. Co.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1913
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- Brown v. BullockCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1961
- Townsend v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
- First Commodity Corp. Of Boston and Richard Badoian v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and John RuddyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1982
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