Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit February 15, 1937, No. 7971 (Southern Ry. Co. v. United States)

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Southern Railway Company, was convicted of violating the penal provisions of section 18 of the rivers and harbors act of March 3, 1899 (33 U.S.C.A. § 502) on an information which charged willful refusal and failure to obey an order of the Secretary of War to alter a railroad bridge, owned and controlled by it, over the Tombigbee river at Jackson, Ala.