Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act, from 1908

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H.C. Lust and R. Merriam, 1913 - Interstate commerce - 1089 pages
 

Contents

LEGALITY OF ALLOWANCES
61
REASONABLE RATESContd
65
DAMAGES AND REPARATION
67
ATTORNEYS FEES
73
5 One lading for several shipments
76
EXTENSION OF ZONE
82
REASONABLENESS
93
REMEDY FOR UNLAWFUL GROUPING
99
Crossreferences
101
BULKHEADS
107
CONTRACTS FOR CAR SUPPLY
123
CARTAGE
126
CLASS RATES
132
38
133
CLASSIFICATION REGULATIONS
144
41
149
COMPARATIVE RATINGS
151
COMMERCE COURT
156
CONSTRUCTION
162
42
165
CONCENTRATING RATES AND PRIVILEGES
169
BAGGAGE TRANSFER
170
STATE COURTS
176
FREE TRANSPORTATION
183
A Elements of Offense
185
LEGAL RATE 439
186
DEFENSES
193
DEMURRAGE RULES
203
PURPOSE
210
43
214
DISCRIMINATION
216
45
234
Page
245
9 Disadvantage of location
259
10 Encouragement of own territory
265
DISCRIMINATION THROUGH ADVANCE
268
PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE
271
DIVISIONS
275
RIGHT TO FUEL RATE
281
CIRCUMSTANCES AND CONDITIONS
288
EQUIPMENT
313
1 In general
314
CIRCUMSTANCES AND CONDITIONS OF PROBATIVE VALUE 2 Advantage of location
317
6 Bonafide investment
318
9 Change in conditions or service
319
3 Bicycles and vehicles
320
9 Crossties and lumber
321
19 Oil
322
BRANCH LINES
323
2 Divisions and joint rates
325
3 Divisions and local rates
326
4 Import and domestic rates
327
14 Competition
328
2 Potential
330
5 Water
331
15 Contract relying on rate
333
18 Cost of service
335
19 Credit
336
21 Dividends
338
24 Fixed charges
339
28 Local rates and combinations
340
30 Low rate in opposite direction
342
31 Manufactured product
343
34 Mineral lands owned by carrier 844
344
38 New rates
345
42 Panama Canal
346
46 Rate to carrier as shipper or consignee
347
48 Rebates
349
52 Risk of loss or damage
350
53 Size of community
351
57 Surplus
352
59 Twoline haul
353
59 Unearned increment
354
62 Value of service
355
JUDICIAL NOTICE
362
PUBLICATION AND TARIFFS
370
9 In general
377
10 Reasonableness in general
378
2 Celery
379
5 Eggs
380
10 Raw furs
382
TARIFFS 13 Construction
383
16 Mixed shipments
384
18 Bulk
385
25 Surplus
386
2 In general
388
3 Compression
389
4 Concentration
390
5 Cooperage and bailing
391
8 Free storage
392
10 Loading unloading bracing etc
393
11 Notifying shipper of rejection
395
13 Staking and binding
396
16 Wharfage
401
PUBLICATION AND TARIFFS 17 Obligation to publish
402
18 Reshipping under through rate
403
19 Retroactive application
405
DISCRIMINATION
406
20 Substitution of tonnage
407
21 In general
408
PROCEDURE
474
CARRIERS LIABILITY Page
476
MARKING AND ADDRESSING
493
MISBILLING
511
NOTICE
513
ADVERTISING
517
OF EXCURSION TICKETS
523
DISCRIMINATION IN FACILITIES
524
CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES
530
POTENTIAL COMPETITION
532
Crossreferences
534
ORDERS OF COMMISSION
547
DISTANCE TARIFF
549
77
550
PROPORTIONAL RATES
555
PULLMAN COMPANY
561
83
563
9 Cost of service
585
13 Equipment furnished
591
22 Origin of traffic
597
29 Reproduction value of road
605
40 Volume of traffic
612
42 Addingmachine paper
613
45 Asphaltum
614
48 Beer bottles and packages
615
50 Box shooks
616
53 Broom corn
618
57 Canned goods
619
58 Car wheels and axles
620
62 Cheese
621
99
622
67 Coal
624
68 Coaltar paving cement
630
72 Corn shucks
631
74 Cotton linters cotton shoddy lining
632
76 Cotton waste
634
80 Elm hub blocks
635
82 Flaxseed and oats
636
84 Fruits and vegetables
637
85 Fruit baskets
648
87 Gas machinery
649
90 Grates
650
91 Gunpowder
651
93 Hickory spokes
652
94 Ice
653
95 Iron and steel bars plates sheets and structural steel
655
96 Iron ore iron products and iron pyrites
656
97 Iron roofing pipe nails wire iron
657
98 Junk
658
2 Compared with main lines
659
4 In competition with main lines
665
113 Mohair
673
119 Paper and stock
682
138 Sheetiron roofing
688
REBILLING
696
DUTY TO ROUTE
702
PUBLICATION AND TARIFFS
710
RELEASED RATES
711
RIGHT TO RECOVER
722
CIRCUMSTANCES DETERMINING RIGHT
730
50
732
LIABILITY FOR REPARATION
742
RETURNED SHIPMENTS
748
40
756
LIABILITY FOR MISROUTING
769
LIABILITY
777
SPECIAL
783
SUBSTITUTION OF TONNAGE
784
51
800
TARIFFS
802
1 In general
803
POSTING
813
7 In general
814
52
822
8 Ambiguity
827
BREAKING OF RATES
831
TERMINAL FACILITIES
833
EXCLUSIVE CONTRACT TO SOLICIT
836
54
837
THROUGH ROUTES AND JOINT RATES
840
2 When through route ordered or denied
850
BILLS OF LADING
859
TARIFFS AND CONSTRUCTION
880
REASONABLENESS AND LEGALITY
885
OPERATION OF RAILROAD
892
EVIDENCE
895
9 In general
905
72
907
R2 RE 2
933
137 Secondhand steel rails and logging equipment
943
74
944
191
957
INDEX TO COMMODITIES
973
BRIDGE TOLLS
975
BULK SHIPMENTS
998
107
1019
149 Tinplate scrap
1028
INDEX TO LOCALITIES
1033
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Page 419 - America in congress assembled, that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 484 - That any common carrier, railroad, or transportation company receiving property for transportation from a point in one State to a point in another State shall issue a receipt or bill of lading therefor and shall be liable to the lawful holder thereof for any loss, damage, or injury to such property caused by it...
Page 413 - ... a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers or property...
Page 192 - Acts amendatory thereto whereby any such property shall by any device whatever be transported at a less rate than that named in the tariffs published and filed by such carrier, as is required by said Act to regulate commerce and the Acts amendatory thereto, or whereby any other advantage is given or discrimination is practiced.
Page 198 - The surrender of this original order bill of lading properly indorsed shall be required before the delivery of the property. Inspection of property covered by this bill of lading will not be permitted unless provided by law or unless permission is indorsed on this original bill of lading or given in writing by the shipper.
Page 433 - ... from one state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, to any other state or territory in the United States or the District of Columbia, or from one place in a territory to another place in the same territory...
Page 413 - ... than it charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 177 - ... nothing in this Act contained shall in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this Act are in addition to such remedies...
Page 387 - Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines and those connecting therewith...
Page 181 - When construing and enforcing the provisions of this act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any...

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