Legislacion de ferrocarriles para la Republica de Cuba: con las modificaciones introducidas en sus tarifasImprenta y encuadernacion de Rambla y Bouza, 1905 - 293 pages |
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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 6 - Reasonable notice must first be given in writing by the party or his attorney proposing to take...
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 6 - All subpoenas shall be signed by the secretary of the board, and may be served by any person of full age, authorized by the board to serve the same.
Page 23 - In case it shall happen at any time, that an election of directors shall not be made on the day designated by the by-laws of said company, when it ought to have been made, the company for that reason shall not be dissolved, but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold...
Page 10 - The said board of railroad commissioners shall make an annual report to the legislature of their doings, including such statements, facts and explanations as will disclose the actual working of the system of railroad transportation in its bearing upon the business and prosperity of the state, and such suggestions as to the general railroad policy of the state, or the amendment of its laws, or as to the condition, affairs or conduct of any of the railroad corporations as may seem to them appropriate.
Page 56 - ... allowed by law for the carriage and transportation of passengers and property in the ordinary cars of said railroad corporation. But said railroad corporation so contracting shall be liable in the same way and to the same extent as if the said car or cars were owned by it, and shall furnish sufficient ordinary cars for the reasonable accommodation of the traveling public.
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 25 - ... executing it shall have specified therein the length of time it is to continue in force, which shall be for some limited period. Every proxy shall <be revocable at the pleasure of the person executing it...