The Railroad Law (corrected Copy) of the Island of Cuba and Other Provisions Related Thereto

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Page 5 - The Commission may also order testimony to be taken by deposition in any proceeding or investigation pending before it, at any stage of such proceeding or investigation. Such depositions may be taken before any judge of any court of the United States, or any commissioner of a circuit, or any clerk of a district or circuit court, or any chancellor...
Page 60 - In case any passenger on any railroad shall be injured while •on the platform of a car, or on any baggage, wood, or freight car, in violation of the printed regulations of the company posted up at the time in a conspicuous place inside of its passenger cars then in the train, such company shall not be liable for the injury; provided said company at the time furnished room inside its passenger cars sufficient for the proper accommodation of the passengers.
Page 6 - If a witness whose testimony may be desired to be taken by deposition be in a foreign country, the deposition may be taken before an officer or person designated by the Commission, or agreed upon by the parties by stipulation in writing to be filed with the Commission.
Page 67 - whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously throw, or cause to fall or strike at, against, into, or upon any engine, tender, carriage, or truck used upon any railway, any wood, stone, or other matter or thing with intent to injure or endanger the safety of any person being in or upon such engine, tender, carriage, or truck, or in or upon any other engine, tender, carriage, or truck of any train of which such...
Page 11 - ... and such assessment shall be collected in the manner provided by law for the collection of taxes upon corporations.
Page 8 - Applications for reopening a case after final submission, or for rehearing after decision made by the commission, must be by petition, and must state specifically the grounds upon which the application is based. If such application be to reopen the case for further evidence, the nature and purpose of such evidence must be briefly stated, and the same must not be merely cumulative.
Page 49 - Committee, of the time when the railway or portion of railway will be, in the opinion of the Company, sufficiently completed for the safe conveyance of passengers, and ready for inspection.
Page 5 - ... refuses without reasonable cause to be examined, or to answer a legal and pertinent question, or to produce a book or paper which he...
Page 52 - ... and shall take, transport, and discharge such passengers and property at, from, and to such places, on the due payment of tolls, freight, or fare, legally authorized therefor.
Page 3 - The answer must specifically admit or deny the material allegations of the petition, and also set forth the facts which will be relied upon to support any such denial.

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