Pensacola & Atlantic Railroad v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Gadsden county. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Raney, C. J.:
There are before us, on appeal from judgments of the Circuit Court, several actions instituted by the State against the appellant to recover penalties under the statute approved June 7th, 1887, and commonly known as the Railroad Commission Act. The cases from Gadsden county, in the Second Circuit, were brought last July, and the penalty adjudged in each of them is $2,500 ; that from Jackson county was commenced last April, and the penalty denounced in it is $2,000. Upon the conclusion of the argument made before us at the present term, we announced that the decision of these…
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