An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,' approved February 17, 1911, as amended... Legislative Calendar - Page 119by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1946Full view - About this book
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1118 pages
...section of the act of March 2, 1893, chap. 196, 27 Stat. at L. 531, US Сотр. Stat. 1901, p. 3174, entitled "An Act to Promote the Safety of Employees...Carriers Engaged in. Interstate Commerce to Equip Their Cars with Automatic Couplers and Continuous Brakes and Their Locomotives with Driving-Wheel Brakes,... | |
| William Lamartine Snyder - Antitrust law - 1906 - 654 pages
...Extended to Territories, and District of Columbia. — That the provisions and requirements of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the safety of employees...carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes,... | |
| Illinois. Appellate Court, Martin L. Newell, Mason Harder Newell, Walter Clyde Jones, Keene Harwood Addington, James Christopher Cahill, Basil Jones, James Max Henderson, Ray Smith - Courts - 1906 - 728 pages
...for C. & A. Ry. Co. v. Walters. coupling automatically by impact, as required by an Act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to promote the safety of employees...carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their curs with automatic couplers," etc. The first additional count charges that appellant having attempted... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 - 788 pages
...of railway employees. Much opposition had to be overcome. In the end an admirable law was passed "to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon...carriers engaged in inter-state commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes."... | |
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Conway Robinson, Peachy Ridgway Grattan, James Muscoe Matthews, George W. Hansbrough, Martin Parks Burks - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1020 pages
...US 1. That decision construes the second section of the act of Congress of March 2, Opinion. 1893, entitled "An act to promote the safety of employees...carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes,... | |
| Appellate courts - 1908 - 822 pages
...that the court did not err in refusing to give this instruction. On March 2, 1893, congress passed "An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers...carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes." 27 Stat. 531 [US Comp. St. 1901, p. 3174]. This... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Railroad law - 1908 - 20 pages
...comes within the rule asserted in the opinions just quoted. The manifest purpose of the act is " to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon...carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes,... | |
| William Wheeler Thornton - Employers' liability - 1909 - 484 pages
...the United State of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions and requirements of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the safety of employees...carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - Railroads - 1909 - 80 pages
...required height for freight cars, approved March 2, 1S93 (contained in 27 Stat. L., p. 531), and known as "An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers...carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes,... | |
| Virginia State Library - Law - 1909 - 124 pages
...REFERENCE LISTS. 9 in support of the bill (6702) to promote the safety of employees and travellers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged...safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto. [1910] 14 p. (US 61st Cong. 2d sess. Sen. doc. 448.) McNeil!, Joseph H. Boiler inspection. Address... | |
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