DAVIS v. NEWTON COAL CO.

Nos. 709 and 710.

267 U.S. 292 (1925)

DAVIS, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS, ETC., OPERATING PHILADELPHIA & READING RAILWAY, v. NEWTON COAL COMPANY. DAVIS, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS, ETC., OPERATING PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, v. NEWTON COAL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wm. Clarke Mason, with whom Mr. John Hampton Barnes and Mr. Charles Myers were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Allen S. Olmsted, 2d, with whom Mr. Wm. A. Glasgow, Jr., was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

These causes present the same points of law and were heard together both here and below. No disputed question of fact remains. In 1919 defendant in error, a Pennsylvania corporation, doing business at Philadelphia, contracted with producers for large quantities of bituminous coal, f.o.b. the mines, subject to the regulations...

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