| Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1116 pages
...the fact whether it is or is cot a common carrier. It is the right of the public to use the road's facilities and to demand service of it rather than...the real criterion determinative of its character." The inquiry here is not whether the plaintiff company is exceeding its powers or failing to perform... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1929 - 1024 pages
...the fact whether it is or is not a common carrier. It is the right of the public to use the road's facilities and to demand service of it rather than...This principle has been frequently recognized in the decisions of the courts. On the question of division the court also said : If the divisions of joint... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1914 - 884 pages
...right of the public to use the road's facilities and to demand service of it rather than the cxiriii of its business which is the real criterion determinative...This principle has been frequently recognized in the decisions of the courts. Defendants' fourth reason for refusing to join with complainant in the publication... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1922 - 1070 pages
...shipper. As stated in the Tap Line Cases, 234 US, 1, it is the right of the public to use the road's facilities and to demand service of it, rather than the extent of its business, that is the real criterion determinative of its character. As to the intermediate or overhead service... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1935 - 1446 pages
...has the ability to perform such transportation. Right of the public to use facilities of a railroad and to demand service of it, rather than the extent of its business, determines whether or not it is a common carrier. Union Belt of Detroit Pooling of Revenues, 577 (581).... | |
| Pennsylvania - Corporation law - 1915 - 962 pages
...the fact whether it is or is not a common carrier. It is the right of the public to use the road's facilities and to demand service of it rather than...principle was laid down in the late case of Union Line Co. v. Chicago & NW Ry. Co., 233 US 211. In that case the Supreme Court of Wisconsin sustained the extension... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1914 - 910 pages
...the fact whether it is or is not a common carrier. It is the right of the public to use the road's facilities and to demand service of it rather than...This principle has been frequently recognized in the decisions of the courts. We need not cite the many state cases in which it has been so held, in view... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 914 pages
...the fact whether it is or is not a common carrier. It is the right of the public to use the road's facilities and to demand service of it rather than...This principle has been frequently recognized in the decisions of the courts. We need not cite the many state cases in which it has been so held, in view... | |
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