Railway ProblemsWilliam Zebina Ripley Ginn, 1907 - 686 páginas |
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... complainant as to the absolute reasonableness of southern freight rates should properly be the general consuming public in the region in ques- tion . In a similar fashion in another of our cases , 3 Danville complains , not primarily ...
... complainant as to the absolute reasonableness of southern freight rates should properly be the general consuming public in the region in ques- tion . In a similar fashion in another of our cases , 3 Danville complains , not primarily ...
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... complainants in both cases is for an order commanding the defendants to desist from the alleged violations of the Act to Regulate Commerce and requiring them to so adjust their several freight tariffs as to afford the merchants and ...
... complainants in both cases is for an order commanding the defendants to desist from the alleged violations of the Act to Regulate Commerce and requiring them to so adjust their several freight tariffs as to afford the merchants and ...
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... complainant would disturb the whole system of rates , and result in a com- pulsory rearrangement of all rates from Chicago and East St. Louis westward ; that many independent lines extend from Chicago and St. Louis westward and ...
... complainant would disturb the whole system of rates , and result in a com- pulsory rearrangement of all rates from Chicago and East St. Louis westward ; that many independent lines extend from Chicago and St. Louis westward and ...
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... complainants , that the proof was that a great number of empty cars from Colorado and westward of Hutchinson and Kansas salt points were to be found in the region of these points , which could be conveniently and profitably loaded with ...
... complainants , that the proof was that a great number of empty cars from Colorado and westward of Hutchinson and Kansas salt points were to be found in the region of these points , which could be conveniently and profitably loaded with ...
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... complainant , the Eau Claire Board of Trade , is an association of citizens and residents of the city of Eau Claire , Wisconsin , organized to promote the business interests of that city . The defendant railroad companies are severally ...
... complainant , the Eau Claire Board of Trade , is an association of citizens and residents of the city of Eau Claire , Wisconsin , organized to promote the business interests of that city . The defendant railroad companies are severally ...
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Albany Americus Board Canal Traffic car loads carried carriers Central cents per hundred charges Charleston Chattanooga Chicago Cincinnati circumstances and conditions cities Commissioner Committee commodities complainant contract cost Credit Mobilier Danville Dawson decision defendant difference discrimination distance domestic rate east eastern Eau Claire effect Erie Eufaula Evansville expenses export rate fact favor fixed flour freight rates Georgia grain haul hundred pounds Ibid interest intermediate Interstate Commerce Commission jobber Kansas less Louis Louisville & Nashville Lynchburg manufacture matter miles Mississippi river Missouri river Montgomery Norfolk Northern Ohio river operation Orleans Pacific Coast Pacific Railroad Company Pensacola points ports profit question railway directories reasonable rebate reduced regulation road route salt Savannah seaboard shipments shipped shippers Southern Railway Southern territory statute tariff tion trade transportation Troy trunk lines Union Pacific Railroad unreasonable Vanderbilt water competition Western wheat York
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Página 515 - Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by It, or under its authority, or which It may own in whole or in part, or In which it may have any Interest, direct or indirect, except such articles or commodities as may be necessary and Intended for its use In the conduct of Its business as a common carrier.
Página 143 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Página 553 - We hold, however, that the basis of all calculations as to the reasonableness of rates to be charged by a corporation maintaining a highway under legislative sanction must be the fair value of the property being used by it for the convenience of the public.
Página 495 - ... Any corporation may purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of the shares of the capital stock of, or any bonds, securities or evidences of indebtedness created by any other corporation or corporations of this or any other state, and while owner of such stock may exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon.
Página 326 - That upon application to the Commission appointed under the provisions of this act, such common carrier may, in special cases, after investigation by the Commission, be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers or property ; and the Commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved from the operation of this section of this act.
Página 540 - Under pretense of regulating fares and freights, the State cannot require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without reward; neither can it do that which in law amounts to a taking of private property for public use without just compensation, or without due process of law.5 1 CM & St.
Página 540 - From what has thus been said, it is not to be inferred that this power of limitation or regulation is itself without limit. This power to regulate is not a power to destroy, and limitation is not the equivalent of confiscation. Under pretense of regulating fares and freights, the state cannot require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without reward; neither can it do that which in law amounts to a taking of private property for public use without just compensation, or without due...
Página 520 - There were three obvious and dissimilar courses open for consideration. Congress might itself prescribe the rates; or it might commit to some subordinate tribunal this duty ; or it might leave with the companies the right to fix rates, subject to regulations and restrictions, as well as to that rule which is as old as the existence of common carriers, to wit, that rates must be reasonable.
Página 157 - All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just ; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Página 157 - That the commission hereby created shall have authority to inquire into the management of the business of all common carriers subject to the provisions of this act, and shall keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted...