Detroit, G. H. & M. Ry. Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Western District of Michigan. This is a petition by the interstate commerce commission to compel the defendant railway company to obey its order in the matter of the application of ¡átone & Parten, asking that the company be required to desist from certain alleged violations of the interstate commerce act found by the commission to have been practiced by it.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Western District of Michigan. This is a petition by the interstate commerce commission to compel the defendant railway company to obey its order in the matter of the application of ¡átone & Parten, asking that the company be required to desist from certain alleged violations of the interstate commerce act found by the commission to have been practiced by it. Being formally notified that the order would not be obeyed, the commissioners filed this petition. There was a, disagreement between the two judges…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
(after stating the facts as above). Before the development of railroads, carriers overland gathered the goods from the premises of the consignor, and delivered them at the door of the consignee, charging a single rate for the whole service. Carriers by water, ex necessitate rei, received the goods at the ship’s side, or the wharfs adjacent thereto, and delivered them at like places; the consignors and consignees, respectively, bringing them to and taking *808them from those places at their own expense. It was doubted at one time whether the cartmen engaged in the business of hauling the goods…
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