LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE R.R. v. MOTTLEY

No. 37.

211 U.S. 149 (1908)

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. MOTTLEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 16, 1908.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry Lane Stone for appellant.

Mr. Lewis McQuown and Mr. Clarence U. McElroy for appellees.

By leave of court, Mr. L.A. Shaver, in behalf of The Interstate Commerce Commission, submitted a brief as amicus curioe.


MR. JUSTICE MOODY, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

Two questions of law were raised by the demurrer to the bill, were brought here by appeal, and have been argued before us. They are, first, whether that part of the act of Congress of June 29, 1906 (34 Stat. 584), which forbids the giving of free passes or the collection of any different compensation for transportation of passengers than that specified in the tariff filed...

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