of floating and stationary elevators and warehouses in this state.” The following is the act: “Section 1. The maximum charge for elevating, receiving, weighing, and discharging grain by means of floating and stationary elevators and warehouses in this state shall not exceed the following rates, namely: For elevating, receiving, weighing, discharging grain, five-eighths of one cent a bushel. In the process of handling grain by means of floating and stationary elevators, the lake vessels or propellers, the ocean vessels or steamships, and canal boats shall only be required to pay the actual cost of trimming or shoveling to the leg of the elevator where unloading and trimming cargo when unloading. Sec. 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and costs thereof. Sec. 3. Any person injured by a violation of the provisions of this act may sue for and recover any damages he may sustain against any person or persons violating said provisions. Sec. 4 This act shall not apply to any village, town, or city having less than one hundred and thirty thousand population. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect immediately.” One Budd, who was engaged in the elevator business at Buffalo, N. Y., was indicted for violating the provisions of said statute, and was charged, in substance, with exacting a greater sum for elevator charges in unloading a cargo of grain and corn than the maximum compensation fixed by the statute. He was convicted, and received a sentence imposing both fine and imprisonment. The case was removed to the court of appeals of New York, which affirmed the judgment of the superior court of Buffalo. People v. Budd, 117 N. Y. 1, 22 N. E. Rep. 670, 682. The Budd Case, with two others arising in different parts of the state of New York, but under the same statute, were, by writ of error, removed to the supreme court of the United States. All three of the cases have been decided by the supreme court of the United States, and an exhaustive opinion was handed down quite recently, and since the case at bar was submitied for our determination. Budd v. People and the two other cases are reported in 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 468. The tribunal of last resort, after citing numerous
