United States v. Louisville & N. R. Co.

EVANS, District Judge.

The United States as plaintiff brought this civil suit as authorized by section 4 of the act of June 29, 1906, c. 3594, 34 Stat. 608 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1907, p. 919], for the recovery of the penalty prescribed in section 3 of the same act for a violation of sections 1 and 2 thereof. The sections referred to are as follows:

“Section 1. That no railroad, express company, car company, common carrier other than by water, or the receiver, trustee, or lessee of any of them, whose road forms any part of a line of road over which cattle, sheep, swine, or other animals shall…