L. R. & Ft. Smith Ry. Co. v. Hanniford
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Conway Circuit Court. G. S. Cunningham, Judge. ■ i. The effect of the act, if applicable to this case, is to regulate the charges to be collected on freight shipped from distant points in other States, and transported over several connecting lines of railroads to points in this State, thus affecting commerce between the States. See 16 Am. & E. R. Cas., p. i; gi U. S., 282; 10 Wall., 565; 16 A.&E.R.
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APPEAL from Conway Circuit Court. G. S. Cunningham, Judge. ■ i. The effect of the act, if applicable to this case, is to regulate the charges to be collected on freight shipped from distant points in other States, and transported over several connecting lines of railroads to points in this State, thus affecting commerce between the States. See 16 Am. & E. R. Cas., p. i; gi U. S., 282; 10 Wall., 565; 16 A.&E.R. Cases, 40; 6g Iowa, 481; gp U. S., 487; 26 A. & E. R. Cases, 1; 23 Cent. L. J, 5¿i- 2. The act is penal in its nature and in derogation of the common law, and must be strictly…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
On the 4th of January, 1886, plaintiffs, Hanniford, Beal & Wills, purchased of the Armour Packing Company, of Kansas City, Mo., 25,000 pounds of meat, and delivered it to the Southern Kansas Railroad Company, which executed its bill of lading therefor, and thereby contracted to ship and deliver it to the plaintiffs, at Morrilton, in this State, at the rate of fifty-five cents per hundred pounds. The defendant, Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway Company, being one of the connecting line of carriers, received the meat at one end of its line and carried it to Morrilton. The weight of the meat was…
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