Court Opinion

ID: 9417819
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 20:39:38.607257+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:21:51.251353
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Harlan and Mr. Justice McKenna
dissenting.
We are of opinion that the act of Congress imposed upon the Express Company the duty not only of affixing at its own expence the required stamp upon any receipt issued by it to a shipper, but of cancelling such stamp — thus giving to the shipper a receipt that could, when necessary, be used as evidence. Whether the company, having issued a receipt duly stamped and cancelled, could increase its charges against the shipper for the purpose, whether avowed or not, of meeting this additional expense, is not, in our opinion, a Federal question, and upon that point this court need not express an opinion.