 | Georgia Public Service Commission - Railroads - 1909 - 596 pages
...exercise it as a common employment; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally, and he must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation...hire as a business, and not as a casual occupation, pro hac vice. Fish V8. Chapman & Ross, 2 Georgia, 349. would not be violating the law or rules of the... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1910 - 440 pages
...exercise it as a public employment; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally, and he must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for hire, as a business, not as a casual occupation" (3). A (1) 1 Sulk. 249. (2) 1 Pick. 50. few cases have denied the necessity... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1466 pages
...exercise it as a public employment; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally; and he must hold himself out as ready to engage In the transportation of goods for hire as a business, not as a casual occupation pro hac vice. A "common carrier" has, therefore, been defined to be one... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1116 pages
...Co. (1911) 100 Ark. 37, 139 SW 680. The distinguishing feature of a common carrier is that he holds himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for hire as a business. Williams v. Kinston Mfg. Co. (1918) 175 NC 226, 95 SE 366. And see also cases in footnote 5, su-pra.... | |
 | Railroad law - 1912 - 860 pages
...exercise it as a public employment; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally, and he must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation...hire as a business, and not as a casual occupation pro hac vice." In the case of Robertson & Co. v. Kennedy, 2 Dana (Ky. ) 430, 26 Am. Dec. 445, it is... | |
 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - Law - 1914 - 1318 pages
...permanently, periodically or continuously.18 The doctrine that one in order to be a common carrier must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for hire as a business, not as a casual occupation pro hac vice,19 should not be held to conflict with the foregoing rule,... | |
 | Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1352 pages
...1. He must be engaged in the business of carrying goods for others as a public employment, and must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for persons generally as a business, and not as a casual occupation. 2. He must undertake to carry goods... | |
 | Public Service Commission of Maryland - Corporations - 1916 - 588 pages
...1. He must he engaged in the business of carrying goods for others as a public employment, and must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for persons generally as a business, and not as a casual occupation. 2. He must undertake to carry goods... | |
 | William Mack, William Benjamin Hale - Law - 1917 - 1284 pages
...Holding Out to Carry as a Public Employment — a. In General. A common carrier is one that holds itself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for hire as a public employment, and not as a casual occupation/'13 It is sometimes said that one that undertakes... | |
 | Needham Calvin Collier - Public service commissions - 1918 - 722 pages
...exercise it as a public employment; he must undertake to convey goods for persons generally, and he must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation...hire, as a business, and not as a casual occupation pro hac vice.3 And this is true whether he holds himself out as a common carrier on land,0 or by water.10... | |
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To bring a person within the description of a common carrier, he must exercise it as a public employment ; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally ; and he must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for hire,... 
