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AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. OF N.Y. v. KENTUCKY

No. 583.

206 U.S. 139 (1907)

27 S.Ct. 609

51 L.Ed. 993

AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. KENTUCKY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 13, 1907.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., and Mr. Edmund F. Trabue, with whom Mr. Joseph S. Graydon was on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.1

Mr. Napoleon B. Hays, Attorney General of the State of Kentucky, with whom Mr. Charles H. Morris was on the brief, for defendant in error.1

MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court.

This case, like the two preceding, was a prosecution of the express company for a violation of the Kentucky statute in respect to "C.O.D." shipments. It was tried in the Circuit Court before a jury, which returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the penalty at one hundred dollars fine, which verdict was sustained and judgment entered thereon by the Circuit Court. The company...

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