Railroad Commission v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 229 U.S. 336
• 57 L. Ed. 1215
• 33 S. Ct. 837
• 1913 U.S. LEXIS 2448

Syllabus

<p>It is the essential character of the commerce, not the accident of local ' or through bills of lading, which determines Federal or state control thereover.</p> <p>Commerce takes its character as interstate or foreign when it is actually started in the course of transportation to another State or to a foreign country.</p> <p>In this case staves and logs intended by the shippers tp bo exported to foreign countries and shipped from points within the State to a' seaport also therein from, which they were to be exported were in interstate and foreign commerce notwithstanding they were shipped on local bills of lading for the initial journey and were subject to interstate and not intrastate charges, and within Federal and not state jurisdiction.</p>