McGrew v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Lafayette Circuit Court. — Hon. Samuel Davis, Judge. STATEMENT. The petition alleges a freight overcharge for one hundred and ten shipments of coal over the line of defendant railway and between the stations thereon of Myrick and Sedaba, a distance of fifty-seven miles, as contrasted with the rates charged for similar shipments over two other stations of defendant road, Liberal and Grandy, distant from each other seventy-seven miles.
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Appeal from Lafayette Circuit Court. — Hon. Samuel Davis, Judge. STATEMENT. The petition alleges a freight overcharge for one hundred and ten shipments of coal over the line of defendant railway and between the stations thereon of Myrick and Sedaba, a distance of fifty-seven miles, as contrasted with the rates charged for similar shipments over two other stations of defendant road, Liberal and Grandy, distant from each other seventy-seven miles. For the transportation between the first two points the rate exacted was sixty-five cents per ton by the car load, and between the others the charge…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
BOND, J.
(After stating the facts as above).— Appellant claimed in its amended answer which was stricken out by the trial court, whose ruling it assigned for error: first, that sections 3173 and 3211 of the Revision of 1909', which were enacted in 1872 and brought forward through all the subsequent revisions and are now found without change in our present statute, were in contravention of the State Constitutions of 1865 and 1875, and the Federal Constitution; second, that said acts were repealed in 1887 at an extra session of the Legislature; third, that section 12, article 12, of the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- McGrew v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1910
- McGrew v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1903
- McGrew v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1906
3Cited by6 opinions
- McGrew Coal Co. v. MellonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1926
- McDonald v. Central Illinois Construction Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1914
- McGrew Coal Co. v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1920
- Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. McGrew Coal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Stemmler v. EinsteinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1957
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