Legal Opinion
United States v. Boston & M. R. R.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided October 31, 1939No. 7032PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
BREWSTER, District Judge.
This action is brought to enforce the penalty imposed by the so-called “28-Hour Law” regulating the transportation of livestock, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 71 to 74.
The case was submitted on agreed facts, including a statement by counsel, read into the record by agreement. I find the facts to be as thus stipulated.
The record discloses that the defendant is a common carrier by railroad, and as such transports livestock in -interstate commerce.
At 1Í.30 A. M. of March 27, 1936, there were delivered to the defendant by a connecting carrier at Bellows Falls, Vermont, two carloads of…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- United States v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- St. Louis & S. F. R. Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
- St. Joseph Stockyards Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1911
- United States v. Southern Pac. Co.District Court, N.D. California · 1907
- Oregon-Washington R. & Nav. Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1913
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3Cited by1 opinion
- United States v. Boston & M. R. R.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1941