Bonner and Eddy v. Franklin Co-Operative Assn.

KEY, Associate Justice.

It is stated in the briefs of both appellants and appellee that this is an action to recover of Bonner and Eddy, as re •ceivers of the International & Great Northern Railway Company, the 8500 penalty prescribed for unjust discrimination in freight rates by article 4258b, section 7, Sayles’ Civil Statutes. Judgment for the amount sued for was rendered against the appellants in the court below.

Delivered September 27, 1893.

The penalty prescribed by the statute referred to is denounced against and limited to ‘ ‘ railway companies.” The doctrine announced in the ■case of…