United States v. Lehigh Valley R.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Joseph Cross, Judge. Action by the United States against the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company to recover a penalty for knowingly and willfully violating the Twenty-Eight Hour Law. From an order sustaining defendant’s motion for judgment non obstante veredicto, the United States brings error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Joseph Cross, Judge. Action by the United States against the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company to recover a penalty for knowingly and willfully violating the Twenty-Eight Hour Law. From an order sustaining defendant’s motion for judgment non obstante veredicto, the United States brings error. The following is the opinion of Cross, District Judge: This action is based upon what is popularly known as the Twenty-Eight Hour Law (Act June 29, 1906, c. 3594, 31 Stat. 607 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1911, p. 33431), an act…
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, Circuit Judge.
This action against the Le-high Valley Railroad Company was brought to recover a penalty for “knowingly and willfully” failing to comply with the Twenty-Eight Hour Law of June 29, 1906. We take the following summary of certain undisputed facts from the government’s brief:
“Oil February 17. 1911, 226 lambs were shipped by O. F. and W. F. Pratt over the defendant’s railroad, from Batavia, N. Y., consigned to Newton & Oo., Jersey City, contained in a car initialed and numbered ‘L. V. 89025,’ and conveyed over said line of railroad in that ear to Jersey City, and…
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