Report of the Pennsylvania State Railroad Commission for the Year Ending ...Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1909 - Railroads |
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Page 145 - 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, justice, or judge of a supreme or superior court, mayor or chief magistrate of a city, judge of a county court, or court of common pleas of any of the United States...
Page 145 - Reasonable notice must first be given in writing by the party or his attorney proposing to take...
Page 145 - Commission, and at any time after the same is at issue. 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.
Page 145 - Every person deposing as herein provided shall be cautioned and sworn (or affirm, if he so request) to testify the whole truth, and shall be carefully examined. His testimony shall be reduced to writing by the magistrate taking the deposition, or under his direction, and shall, after it has been reduced to writing, be subscribed by the deponent.
Page 27 - ... that it is, therefore, manifest that the indemnity clause of the contract is equivocal. We think counsel's contention is well-answered in Payne v. National Transit Co., DC, 300 F. 411, 412, 413. The indemnity covenant in that case reads as follows: "Said party of the second part does further agree to indemnify and save harmless the party of the first part from and against all claims, suits, damages, costs, losses, and expenses, in any manner resulting from or arising out of the laying, maintenance,...
Page 12 - A statement in detail of the traveling expenses and disbursements of the commissioners, their clerks, marshal and experts. Five hundred copies of the report with the reports of the railroad corporations of the...
Page 145 - United States, or any commissioner of a circuit, or any clerk of a district or circuit court, or any chancellor, justice, or judge of a supreme or superior court, mayor or chief magistrate of a city, judge of a county court, or court of common pleas of any of the United States, or any notary public, not being of counsel or attorney to either of the parties...
Page 145 - In case of failure to answer, the Commission will take such proof of the facts as may be deemed proper and reasonable and make such order thereon as the circumstances of the case may require.
Page 144 - The filing of an answer, however, will not be deemed an admission of the sufficiency of the complaint, but a motion to dismiss for insufficiency may be made at the hearing.
Page 146 - Number and amount of bonds authorized and issued, giving name of company which issued and describing each class separately, giving date of issue, par value, rate of interest, date of maturity and how secured.