United States v. Erie Railroad

Citations

• 235 U.S. 513
• 35 S. Ct. 193
• 59 L. Ed. 335
• 1915 U.S. LEXIS 1838

Syllabus

<p>Quaere, whether'§ 184, Penal Code, prohibiting the carriage of letters or packets otherwise than in the mail by carriers on post routes, except under certain specified conditions, is penal or remedial, or whether it is to have a liberal or strict construction.</p> <p>Letters of officers of the carrier, a railroad company, to officers of the telegraph company with which it has a contract and in whose business it participates, relating to immediate and day by day action, is current, as distinguished from exceptional, business and falls within the permitted exceptions of § 184, Penal Code.</p>