State v. Inland Coal & Dock Co.

Holt, Justice.

Two actions brought by the state to recover state weigh-master’s fees of 50 cents a carload of coal transported by rail from the coal docks of defendants to their retail yards at Minneapolis and St. Paul. Plaintiff’s demurrers to the answers were sustained, and defendants appeal.

The two cases were by stipulation to be heard as one and were submitted in this court upon one brief by each side. They are alike except to the numbers of cars weighed for each defendant, and except that the defendant Inland Coal & Dock Company operates its retail yards at Minneapolis by a wholly owned…