So long as the public are served to their reasonable satisfaction, it is a matter of no importance who serves them. The railroad company performs its whole duty to the public at large and to each individual when it affords the public all reasonable express... A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations - Page 1081by Victor Morawetz - 1886 - 1173 pagesFull view - About this book
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 812 pages
...public at large and to each individual when it affords the public all reasonable express accommodations. If this is done, the railroad company owes no duty...as to insure reasonable promptness and security." In Chicago, St. L. & У. 0. R. Co. v. Pullman Southern Car Co. 139 US 79, 87, 35 L. ed. 97, 100, 11... | |
| Railroad Commission of Wisconsin - Railroad law - 1910 - 1080 pages
...public at large and to each individual when it affords the public all reasonable express accommodations. If this is done the railroad company owes no duty...public as to the particular agencies it shall select." A further modification of the general rule was pernvtted in the case of Bullard v. American Express... | |
| Railroad Commission of Wisconsin - Railroad law - 1909 - 924 pages
...public at large and to each individual when it affords the public all reasonable express accommodations. If this is done .the railroad company owes no duty to the public as to the particular agencies it sha'l select -for that purpose. The' public requires the carriage, but the company may choose its own... | |
| Frederick Hale Cooke - Antitrust law - 1909 - 552 pages
...for doing an express business on their passenger trains, the court said (117 US 24; 6 Supm. 554) : "The public require the carriage, but the company may choose its own appropriate means of carriage." The doctrine of the Express Cases on this point was applied in Blank v. Illinois Central R. R. Co.,... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1909 - 818 pages
...to the public at large and to each individual when it offers all reasonable express accommodations. If this is done the railroad company owes no duty to the public aa to the particular agencies it shall select. The sixth section requires that carriers subject to... | |
| New Jersey. Board of Railroad Commissioners - Railroads - 1910 - 218 pages
...public at large and to each individual when it affords the public all reasonable express accommodations. If this is done, the railroad company owes no duty...as to insure reasonable promptness and security.' "4. The statutes of this State (An act concerning railroads, revision of 1903, PL *903t Chapter 257,... | |
| Frederick Green - Carriers - 1910 - 650 pages
...public at large and to each individual when it affords the public all reasonable express accommodations. If this is done the railroad company owes no duty...such as to insure reasonable promptness and security. The inconvenience that would come from allowing more than one express company on a railroad at the... | |
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