Case ID: ky_161/html/0200-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Nunn", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth.
    (Decided November 20, 1914.)
    Appeal from Barren Circuit Court.
    Same v. Same.
    Appeal from Hart Circuit Court.
    Same v. Same.
    Appeal from.Larne Circuit Court.
    Same v. Same.
    Appeal from Nelson Circuit Court.
    Pools — Trusts.-—In a penal action against tbe International Harvester Company, following tlie opinion, of the IT. S. Supreme Court, 234 IT. S., 216, the judgment of the lower court is reversed.
    
      HUMPHREY, MIDDLETON & HUMPHREY and ARTHUR M. RUTLEDGE for appellant.
    PRANK E. DAUGHERTY, JAMES GARNETT, Attorney General, and CHARLES CARROLL for appellee.
   Opinion op the Court by

Judge Nunn

— Reversing.

By agreement of the parties the above four cases were tried in the circuit court upon the record of the case of Commonwealth of Kentucky v. International Harvester Company of America in the Bullitt Circuit Court, which has been appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and there reversed. Under the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in that case, 234 U. S., 216, these prosecutions cannot he maintained.

The judgment in each case is, therefore, reversed and the cause remanded to the circuit court-with directions to dismiss the proceedings.