UNITED STATES v. BOSTON & M. R. R.

No. 5725.

21 F.Supp. 673 (1937)

UNITED STATES v. BOSTON & M. R. R.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

December 21, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. W. Ford, U. S. Atty., and C. Keefe Hurley, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Boston, Mass.

Richard W. Hall, of the B. & Maine Law Department, Boston, Mass., for defendant.


SWEENEY, District Judge.

This is an action for the recovery of a penalty provided in 34 Statutes at Large 607, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 71-74, for the failure of the defendant carrier to comply with the terms of the act providing for the unloading of sheep in transit for rest, water, and feed every 28 hours.

On December 9, 1932, at 4:45 p. m., the defendant received from another carrier at Mechanicville, N. Y., a consignment of 255 sheep confined in a double...

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