Swift & Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States, for the I?,astern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Swift & Co. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error. Plaintiff in error, indicted upon 29 counts, was found guilty on all of them and sentenced to pay a fine of §(i9,000 upon 28 of them, 1 having been dismissed. The charges preferred against it may bo divided 'into two classes.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States, for the I?,astern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Swift & Co. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error. Plaintiff in error, indicted upon 29 counts, was found guilty on all of them and sentenced to pay a fine of §(i9,000 upon 28 of them, 1 having been dismissed. The charges preferred against it may bo divided 'into two classes. Counts 1 to 25 dealt with section I of Idle Elkins Act (Act Feb. 19, 1908, c. 708, 32 Stat. 847 [Comp. St. § 8597]), The last 4 counts…
1Opinion of the CourtEvan A. Evans, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Although several assignments of error are presented, only one need be considered. For it is admitted by both sides that the judgment cannot stand if the shipper was entitled to carload rates for each of the four shipments mentioned. Plaintiff in error admits that its right to carload rates is dependent upon certain rules appearing in the published tariff sheets of the Ann Arbor road in force at the time of the shipments; that, if these rules do not furnish support for the carload rate, then it obtained a reduced rate on each of its four shipments. The case…
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