Webster Coal Coke Company v. Cassatt
Decision Date | 02 December 1907 |
Docket Number | No. 283,283 |
Citation | 52 L.Ed. 160,207 U.S. 181,28 S.Ct. 108 |
Parties | WEBSTER COAL & COKE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. A. J. CASSATT, John B. Thayer, Charles E. Pugh, et al |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
The Webster coal & Coke Company commenced an action at law in the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, defendant, to recover damages for its alleged violation of the interstate commerce act of February 4, 1887 [24 Stat. at L. 379, chap. 104, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 3154], by discriminating against plaintiff in the allowance of freight rates on coal and coke. The defendant pleaded not guilty.
In the opinion below it is stated:
'After issue was thus joined, and before the time for the trial of the action, the plaintiff filed in the circuit court a petition in which, after setting forth the nature of the action at law, and declaring that the defendant and Alexander J. Cassatt, president, John B. Thayer, fourth vice president, and ten other specifically-named officers and employees of the defendant, had in their possession or power certain books and papers containing evidence pertinent to the issue, there was a prayer for an order requiring the defendant and its said officers and employees to produce said books and papers at the trial, and also for inspection by the plaintiff's representatives before trial. The application for the order was based on § 724 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 583), which is as follows:
To review this order, Cassatt and the other officers and agents of the Pennsylvania company sued out, as individuals, a writ of error from the circuit court of appeals for the third circuit, assigning as error (1) that the...
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