St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company v. Edwards

Citations

• 227 U.S. 265
• 33 S. Ct. 262
• 57 L. Ed. 506
• 1913 U.S. LEXIS 2296

Syllabus

<p>Action by 'Congress on a subject within its domain under the commerce • clause of the Constitution results in excluding the States from acting on that subject:</p> <p>As applied to interstate shipments, the State cannot now impose penalties for delay in delivery to consignee, as Congress has acted on that subject by the passage of the Hepburn Act. Chicago, R. 1. &• Pac. Ry. Co. v. Hardwick Elevator Co., 226 U. S. 426. ,</p> <p>The so-called Demurrage Statute of 1907 of Arkansas requiring railroad ■ companies to give notice to consignees of arrival of shipments, and penalizing them' for non-compliance is an unconstitutional inter- • fgrence with interstate commerce so far as interstate shipments are concerned.</p>