Supreme Court of the United States December 8, 1919, 66 (St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Williams)

Mr. Justice Van Devanter

delivered the opinion of the court.

. By a statute of Arkansas, regulating rates for the transportation of passengers between points within the State,

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any railroad company that demands or collects a greater compensation than the statute prescribes is subjected “for every such offense” to a penalty of “not less than fifty dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars