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UNITED STATES v. KOENIG COAL CO.

No. 216.

270 U.S. 512 (1926)

46 S.Ct. 392

70 L.Ed. 709

UNITED STATES v. P. KOENIG COAL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 12, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Blackburn Esterline, Assistant to the Solicitor General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. William H. Bonneville, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Harold Goodman, with whom Mr. Edwin R. Monning was on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

The P. Koenig Coal Company was indicted in the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, under the Elkins Act, for knowingly receiving as a shipper concessions from a carrier under the Interstate Commerce Act in respect of transportation of property in interstate commerce obtained by deceitful representation made to the carriers on which the carriers innocently...

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