Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Murphey
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. The plaintiff in error brings this case here to review the judgment of the Supreme Court of Georgia, affirming a judgment of the trial court, in favor of the defendants in error, for the damages sustained by them on the shipment of certain grapes, as hereinafter more particularly stated.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. The plaintiff in error brings this case here to review the judgment of the Supreme Court of Georgia, affirming a judgment of the trial court, in favor of the defendants in error, for the damages sustained by them on the shipment of certain grapes, as hereinafter more particularly stated. (First reported, 113 Georgia, 514, and again on appeal from judgment on second trial, 116 Georgia, 863.) The trial court gave judgment for the shippers of the grapes, who were plaintiffs below, for the amount of the difference between the market price of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr-. Justice Peckham,
after making the foregoing -statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has held in this case that the statute applies to shipments of freight destined to points outside, as well as to those inside the State, and we must accept that construction of the state statute. The question for us to decide is whether the statute, when applied to an interstate shipment of freight, is an interference with or a regulation of interstate commerce, and therefore void.
We think the imposition upon the initial or any connecting carrier, or the-duty of tracing…
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