AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 405, 406, 407, 408, 409.

212 U.S. 522 (1909)

AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. NATIONAL EXPRESS COMPANY v. SAME. UNITED STATES EXPRESS COMPANY v. SAME. WELLS, FARGO AND COMPANY v. SAME. ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 23, 1909.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lawrence Maxwell, with whom Mr. Lewis Cass Ledyard, Mr. Frank H. Platt, Mr. Carl A. de Gersdorf, Mr. W.W. Green and Mr. Charles W. Stockton were on the brief, for appellant.

The Attorney General and The Solicitor General for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases are appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois and were submitted upon oral argument and printed record and briefs in No. 405. They involve the same question and hence will be disposed of together. The petition was filed in the Circuit Court under the third section of the Elkins act, February 19, 1903, c. 708, 32...

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