Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce CommissionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1932 |
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Page 233 - If the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be of the opinion that any such existing specified service by water other than through the Panama Canal is being operated in the interest of the public and is of advantage to the convenience and commerce of the people, and that such extension will neither exclude, prevent, nor reduce competition on the route by water under consideration...
Page 495 - Provided, however, That the provisions hereof respecting liability for full actual loss, damage, or injury, notwithstanding any limitation of liability or recovery or representation or agreement or release as to value, and declaring any such limitation to be unlawful and void...
Page 172 - ... if a circuitous rail line or route is, because of such c,ircuity, granted authority to meet the charges of a more direct line or route to or from competitive points and to maintain higher charges to or from intermediate points on its line, the authority shall not include intermediate points as to which the haul of the petitioning line or route is not longer than that of the direct line or route between the competitive points...
Page 495 - The amount of any loss or damage for which any carrier is liable shall be computed on the basis of the value of the property (being the bona fide invoice price, if any, to the consignee, including the freight charges, if prepaid) at the place and time of shipment...
Page 127 - The general current of the modern authorities on the interpretation of contracts, and also of statutes, where time is to be computed from a particular day or a particular event, as when an act is to be performed within a specified period from or after a day named, is to exclude the day thus designated, and to include the last day of the specified period.
Page 495 - ... except ordinary livestock, received for transportation concerning which the carrier shall have been or shall hereafter be expressly authorized or required by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish and maintain rates dependent upon the value declared in writing by the shipper or agreed upon in writing as the released value of the property...
Page 137 - The Fiscal Agent shall not be answerable for the default or misconduct of any agent or attorney appointed by it in pursuance hereof if such agent or attorney shall have been selected with reasonable care...
Page 135 - An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes...
Page 113 - Brick, common, not hollow, made from low-grade clay or shale, loaded to the marked capacity of the car, and when not braced, wedged, or packed for protection against rubbing, breaking, or chipping...
Page 275 - ... reasonably compensatory" imply that a rate properly so described must ( 1 ) cover and more than cover the extra or additional expenses incurred in handling the traffic to which it applies: (2) be no lower than necessary to meet existing competition; (3) not be so low as to threaten the extinction of legitimate competition by water carriers ; and (4) not impose an undue burden on other traffic or jeopardize the appropriate return on the value of carrier property generally, as comtemplated in section...