ILLINOIS CENT. R. CO. v. CRAIL

No. 75.

281 U.S. 57 (1930)

50 S.Ct. 180

74 L.Ed. 699

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. CRAIL, DOING BUSINESS AS P. McCOY FUEL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward C. Craig, with whom Messrs. Edwin C. Brown and R.V. Fletcher were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Stanley B. Houck, with whom Mr. W. Yale Smiley was on the brief, for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case certiorari was granted May 27, 1929, to review a ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upon the measure of damages recoverable in a suit brought under the Cummins Amendment of March 4, 1915, 38 Stat. 1197, as amended 41 Stat. 494 [49 U.S.C., § 20 (11),] against a rail carrier for failure to deliver a part of an interstate shipment of coal...

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