Court Opinion

ID: 9807419
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 20:03:24.407451+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:36:11.597497
License: Public Domain

BnowN, J.,
concurring: I concur in sending this case back for trial in order that the facts may be found. I reserve the right to determine for myself whether the penalty, in case one should be imposed, is a burden upon interstate commerce, in case the cause shall come back upon a final judgment against the defendant.
As I read the record the defendant would be liable, if at all, for only fifty dollars, the penalty imposed for one day only, as there is proof of only one distinct tender and refusal. That matter, however, will be made clearer on a'nother trial.
As the plaintiffs admit that they lost nothing by the delay in shipping the shingles, if they are permitted to recover seven hundred and fifty dollars as penalties under the statute, I should be inclined to hold that such an excessive impost could not be sustained, under the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in Houston & T. C. R. R. v. Mays, 201 U. S., 321, and McNeil v. R. R., 202 U. S., 542.