Stock Yards

The business of stock Hopkins v. U. S., 171 U. S. 578, 19 Sup. Ct. 40, 43 L. Ed. 290. But In U. S. v. Stock Yard Co., 220 U. S. 286, 33 Sup. Ct. 83, 57 L. Ed. 226, it was held that a stock yard was subject to the Act to Regulate Commerce and must conform to its requirements as to filing tariffs and desist from unlawful discriminations. That act, as amended, extends to all terminal facilities. The fact that a particular stock yard extends over the boundary line between two states does not make the business interstate commerce; Cotting v. Stock Yards Co., 183 U. S. 79, 22 Sup. Ct. 30, 46 L. Ed. 92. Live stock shipped from various states to the yards of a stock yards association in another state by the solicitation and procurement of the members thereof, to be there sold or to be reshipped to other states if the market should be unsatisfactory, does not cease to be a subject of interstate commerce as soon as it reaches such yards and is there unloaded, nor until it has been further acted upon so as to become mingled with the mass of property in the state; Hopkins v. TJ. S., 171 U. S. 578, 19 Sup. Ct 40, 43 L. Ed. 290. A stock yards company maintaining tracks connecting with the tracks of railroad companies, and which by its own locomotives and servants transports cars containing interstate shipments to and from the tracks of the railroad companies, is held to be a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, though it collects compensation only from the railroad companies and is paid under a contract between it and them; Union Stock Yards Co. of Omaha v. U. S., 169 Fed. 404, 94