Court Opinion

ID: 9883049
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 01:36:02.721402+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:19.311653
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'"Me. Justice Field
dissenting.
'• I' agree -with Me. Justice Millee in the positions he has stated, although in the cases just decided I think the decrees of the courts below require modification in several particulars; they go too far. But I am clear that railroad companies are bound, as common carriers, to accommodate the public in the transportation of goods according to its necessities, and through the instrumentalities or in the mode best adapted to promote its convenience. Among these instrumentalities express companies, by the mode in which their business is conducted, are the most important and useful.
Mr. Justice Matthews took no part in the decision of these cases.