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UNITED STATES v. FERGER

No. 776.

250 U.S. 199 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 445

63 L.Ed. 936

UNITED STATES v. FERGER ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 2, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Brown, with whom Mr. Charles H. Weston was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Charles E. Hughes, with whom Mr. John C. Hermann and Mr. Sherman T. McPherson were on the brief, for defendants in error.

Mr. Francis B. James, by leave of court, filed a brief on behalf of the National Industrial Traffic League, as amicus curioe.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The twenty-four counts of the indictment in this case were concerned with the commission of acts defined as criminal and punished by the 41st section of the Act of August 29, 1916, entitled, "An Act Relating to bills of lading in interstate and foreign commerce." (39 Stat. 538.)

In the first count it was charged that the accused, in violation of the section, on or about the 14th day of August, 1917...

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