Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission

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Страница 223 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Страница 373 - ... act, matter or thing in this act prohibited or declared to be unlawful...
Страница 322 - An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Страница 319 - Act to charge and receive as great compensation for a shorter as for a longer distance; provided, however, that upon application to the Commission appointed under the provisions of this Act, such common carrier may, in special cases, after investigation by the Commission, be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers or property; and the Commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved...
Страница 217 - ... the territory south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi...
Страница 86 - While the circumstances and conditions in respect to the work done by the carrier and the revenue earned are dissimilar in the transportation of freights in carloads and less than carloads, and a lower rate on carloads than on less than carloads is therefore not in contravention of the statute, yet the difference between the two rates must be reasonable. 742. The agreement of the Transcontinental Association on file with the Commission is not on its face a "contract or agreement or combination...
Страница 542 - reasonable and just," " unreasonable or unjust," " undue or unreasonable preference or advantage," " undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever...
Страница 547 - That the Commission may conduct its proceedings in such manner as will best conduce to the proper dispatch of business and to the ends of justice.
Страница 378 - It is the accepted doctrine in this country that a railroad corporation cannot escape the performance of any duty or obligation imposed by its charter or the general laws of the State by a voluntary surrender of its road into the hands of Opinion of the Court. lessees. The operation of the road by the lessees does not change the relations of the original company to the public.
Страница 324 - July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, until otherwise ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to use any car in interstate commerce that is not provided with secure grab irons or handholds in the ends and sides of each car for greater security to men in coupling and uncoupling cars.

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