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RAILWAY EXPRESS CO. v. VIRGINIA

No. 55.

282 U.S. 440 (1931)

51 S.Ct. 201

75 L.Ed. 450

RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INCORPORATED, v. VIRGINIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 2, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Albert M. Hartung, with whom Messrs. Wyndham R. Meredith and Harry S. Marx were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Collins Denny, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of Virginia, with whom Messrs. John R. Saunders, Attorney General, and Edwin H. Gibson, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia affirming an order of the Corporation Commission that denied to the appellant a certificate of authority to do an intrastate express business in Virginia. 153 Va. 498. The appellant was incorporated in Delaware, in December, 1928, and was given by its charter not only power to engage in international, interstate and intrastate express...

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