The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad Cases in the Courts of Last Resort in America and EnglandLawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson Edward Thompson Company, 1883 Covers cases decided [1879?]-1895. |
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... error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Eastern District of Missouri ... Plaintiff in error was indicted is the district court for an alleged violation of the interstate commerce act . There were ...
... error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Eastern District of Missouri ... Plaintiff in error was indicted is the district court for an alleged violation of the interstate commerce act . There were ...
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... error , plaintiff below , recovered a judg- ment in the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of Iowa for the sum of $ 225 for alleged overcharges . on corn shipped from Scranton , Iowa , to Chicago . The action ...
... error , plaintiff below , recovered a judg- ment in the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of Iowa for the sum of $ 225 for alleged overcharges . on corn shipped from Scranton , Iowa , to Chicago . The action ...
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... plaintiff in error . C. C. Nourse and C. L. Nourse , for defendants in error . Before BREWER , Circuit Justice , and CALDWELL and SAN- BORN , Circuit Judges . BREWER , Circuit Justice . This case must be determined exclusively by the ...
... plaintiff in error . C. C. Nourse and C. L. Nourse , for defendants in error . Before BREWER , Circuit Justice , and CALDWELL and SAN- BORN , Circuit Judges . BREWER , Circuit Justice . This case must be determined exclusively by the ...
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... plaintiff nothing that he was unaware of this through joint tariff at the time he made the shipments which are the ... Error , v . H. A. Junod and R. Y. Culbertson , De- fendants in Error , involves the same questions , and the same ...
... plaintiff nothing that he was unaware of this through joint tariff at the time he made the shipments which are the ... Error , v . H. A. Junod and R. Y. Culbertson , De- fendants in Error , involves the same questions , and the same ...
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... ERROR from Kingman district court . Action to recover damages resulting from small - pox , con- tracted by plaintiff owing to his coming in contact with de- fendant's ticket agent . Wm . Mumford and Patterson & Whittinghill , for plaintiff ...
... ERROR from Kingman district court . Action to recover damages resulting from small - pox , con- tracted by plaintiff owing to his coming in contact with de- fendant's ticket agent . Wm . Mumford and Patterson & Whittinghill , for plaintiff ...
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Página 22 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Página 337 - Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines and those connecting therewith, and shall not discriminate in their rates and charges between such connecting lines; but this shall not be construed as requiring any such common...
Página 486 - It is admitted that the rule is difficult of application. But it is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.
Página 338 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose...
Página 13 - That the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property -wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management, or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Página 337 - ... from the place of shipment to the place of destination; and no break of bulk, stoppage, or interruption made by such common carrier shall prevent the carriage of freights from being and being treated as one continuous carriage from the place of shipment to...
Página 337 - ... required to be done, such common carrier shall be liable to the person or persons injured thereby for the full amount of damages sustained in consequence of any such violation of the provisions of this act...
Página 683 - It is not intended to say that these words comprehend that commerce which is completely internal, which is carried on between man and man in a state, or between different parts of the same state, and which does not extend to or affect other states. Such a power would be inconvenient, and is certainly unnecessary. Comprehensive as the word among is, it may very properly be restricted to that commerce which concerns more states than one.
Página 514 - The general rule, resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, is, that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specified duties and services, for compensation, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services, and in legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly.
Página 640 - Pacific coast, and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores over the route of said line of railway, every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad...