| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 782 pages
...before said, before the organization of this defendant corporation, has given the Legislature power to, from time to time, pass laws establishing reasonable maximum rates of charges for railroad transportation. Who is 'to judge of the reasonableness of such legislation, of the rates so... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 710 pages
...device conceived with the fraudulent intent to evade the constitutional and statutory requirements that no railroad corporation shall issue any stock or bonds...labor or property actually received and applied to the purpose for which such corporation was organized, and that all dividends and other fictitious increase... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 688 pages
...article 11 of the constitution of 1870 also provides that the General Assembly, from time to time, shall pass laws establishing reasonable maximum rates of...passengers and freight on the different railroads of this State. Section 15 of the same article also provides that the General Assembly shall pass laws... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 780 pages
...supreme legislative power. The Constitution of Washington, Art. XII, § 18, requires the legislature to pass laws establishing reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight, and to correct abuses and prevent discrimination in rates by railroads and... | |
| Law - 1873 - 462 pages
...constructed or that may hereafter be constructed in this State are hereby declared public highways * * * and the general assembly shall, from time to time,...freight on the different railroads in this State." In pursuance of this provision the general assemblydeclared that railroads should not charge as much... | |
| Law - 1902 - 458 pages
...lll., vol. 2, p. 1,641), and the following mandatory provision was incorporated in that Constitution: "The general assembly shall, from time to time, pass...freight on the different railroads in this State." In accordance with that mandate, in 1873, a " railroad and warehouse commission " was created, with... | |
| 1907 - 1184 pages
...thirty percent, stock dividend) was valid. for the Constitution of that State has this provision : No railroad corporation shall issue any stock or bonds...labor, or property actually received and applied to the purpose for which such corporation was created ; and all stock dividends and other fictitious increases... | |
| Michigan. Legislature. Senate - Michigan - 1870 - 156 pages
...persons and property thereon, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law ; and the Legislature shall, from time to time, pass laws establishing reasonable...for the transportation of passengers and freight on different railroads in this State, and shall prohibit running contracts between such railroad companies... | |
| Michigan - 1870 - 108 pages
...Constitution, and be entitled "Of Railroads:" ARTICLE 19-Af RAILROADS. SECTION 1. The Legislature may, from time to time, pass laws establishing reasonable...for the transportation of passengers and freight on different railroads in this State, and shall prohibit running contracts between such railroad companies... | |
| William B. Dana - Commerce - 1870 - 494 pages
...to stockholders, in such manner as nay be provided by law. No railroad corporation is permitted to issue any stock or bonds except for money, labor or property actually received and applied to the purpose for which such corporation was created ; all stock dividends and other fictitious increase... | |
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