 | Frederick Green - Carriers - 1910 - 650 pages
...lower rate on dressed meat had not caused a diminution in shipments of live stock. Brewer, J., said: "It must be remembered that railroads are the private...service and equality between shippers and communities, vet in no proper sense is the public a general manager. As said in Int. Com. Com. v. Ala. Mid. ER Co.,... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Railroads - 1911 - 1140 pages
...expressed in Interstate Commerce Commission v. Chicago Great Western Ry., 209 US, 108, as follows (p. 118): It must be remembered that railroads are the private...In no proper sense Is the public a general manager. The great power given to this commission can be wisely exercised only by a full conception of these... | |
 | Samuel Orace Dunn - Railroad law - 1911 - 96 pages
...law, and was decided after the Hepburn act was passed, it said : "It must be remembered that railways are the private property of their owners; that while,...no proper sense, is the public a general manager." Those who think that railway profits cannot be limited construe these statements to mean that public... | |
 | Bruce Wyman - Public utilities - 1911 - 854 pages
...efficient management according to the highest standards of the particular business.1 "At the same time, it must be remembered that railroads are the private...the work in which they are engaged, the public has power to prescribe rules for securing faithful and efficient service, and equality between shippers... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - United States - 1912 - 196 pages
...governmental Commissions for the Boards of Directors. The United States Supreme Court itself has said that "railroads are the private property of their...no proper sense is the public a general manager." l The Supreme Court has also said: "When one devotes his property to a use in which the public has... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1254 pages
...Interstate Com. Com'n v. Chicago GW Ry. Co., 209 US 108, 118, 28 Sup. Ct. 493, 496, 52 L. Ed. 705: "It must be remembered that railroads are the private...the work in which they are engaged, the public has thepower to prescribe rules for securing faithful and efficient service and equality between shippers... | |
 | Frederick Newton Judson - Interstate commerce - 1912 - 842 pages
...stock. The court said in this case that the railroads were the private property of their owners, and while from the public character of the work in which they are engaged the public has the right to prescribe rules for securing faithful and efficient service and equality between shippers... | |
 | Herbert Confield Lust, Ralph Merriam - Interstate commerce - 1913 - 1180 pages
...98, 105, 30 Sup. Ct. 66, 64 L. ed. 112. (c) Railroads are the private property of their owners and while from the public character of the work in which...in no proper sense is the public a general manager. ICC v. CG W. Ry. Co., 209 US 108, 118, 28 Sup. Ct 493, 62 L. ed. 706. (d) In order to sustain reasonable... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Contracts - 1914 - 542 pages
...contrary to the public good. In deciding the case in favour of the defendants, Mr. Justice Brewer said, "It must be remembered that railroads are the private...no proper sense is the public a general manager." 11 P. 156. But the public and private nature of railways are so blended that considerable confusion... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 552 pages
...Again, in speaking of this power of regulation, the Supreme Court of the United States recently said: "It must be remembered that railroads are the private...no proper sense is the public a general manager." And the court, in the opinion from which I quote, goes on to define the power or function of regulation... | |
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It must be remembered that railroads are the private property of their owners; that while from the public character of the work in which they are engaged the public has the power to prescribe rules for securing faithful and efficient 'service and equality... 
