Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending ..., Volume 17State of Iowa, 1895 |
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... Railway Company , and the Burlington , Cedar Rapids & North- ern Railway Company . An appeal was taken from the order of Judge Fairall to the Iowa Supreme Court and argued at the October term . Before a decision was reached in that ...
... Railway Company , and the Burlington , Cedar Rapids & North- ern Railway Company . An appeal was taken from the order of Judge Fairall to the Iowa Supreme Court and argued at the October term . Before a decision was reached in that ...
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... railway companies , establish- ing joint rates , to make by such joint rates any unjust discrimination between the differ- ent shipping points or stations upon their respective lines between which joint rates are established , and any ...
... railway companies , establish- ing joint rates , to make by such joint rates any unjust discrimination between the differ- ent shipping points or stations upon their respective lines between which joint rates are established , and any ...
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... railway companies for shipments within this State for like distances over their respective lines , and rates charged by the railway companies operating such connecting lines for joint inter - state shipments for like distances . The ...
... railway companies for shipments within this State for like distances over their respective lines , and rates charged by the railway companies operating such connecting lines for joint inter - state shipments for like distances . The ...
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... railway . Under the provisions of said chapter 28 , as amended by said section 1 , and without reference to the other and remaining sections of said act of the twenty - third General Assembly , on July 31 , 1890 , made and entered of ...
... railway . Under the provisions of said chapter 28 , as amended by said section 1 , and without reference to the other and remaining sections of said act of the twenty - third General Assembly , on July 31 , 1890 , made and entered of ...
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... Railway Company having in the meantime been dissolved , they issued another notice or order similar to the above , including the said Burlington , Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company in the same , with all the other roads mentioned ...
... Railway Company having in the meantime been dissolved , they issued another notice or order similar to the above , including the said Burlington , Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company in the same , with all the other roads mentioned ...
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Page 365 - SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to enter into any contract, agreement, or combination with any other common carrier or carriers for the pooling of freights of different and competing railroads, or to divide between them the aggregate or net proceeds of the earnings of such railroads, or any portion thereof ; and in any case of an agreement for the pooling of freights as aforesaid, each day of its continuance shall be deemed a separate...
Page 204 - 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...
Page 204 - All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 173 - 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...
Page 204 - ... a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers or property, subject to the provisions of this act, than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby...
Page 19 - ... railroads for which said schedules may have been respectively prepared. Said commissioners shall from time to time, and as often as circumstances may require, change and revise said schedule.
Page 207 - ... greater amount of toll or compensation than it shall at the same time charge, collect, or receive from any other person or persons for receiving, handling, or delivering freight of the same class and like quantity at the same point upon its railroad...
Page 207 - ... a greater distance of the same railroad; or if it shall charge, collect, or receive from any person or persons, for the use and transportation of any railroad car or cars upon its railroad, a...
Page 172 - Whenever a commodity has begun to move as an article of trade from one state to another, commerce in that commodity between the states has commenced.
Page 220 - It is unnecessary to decide, and we do not wish to be understood as laying down as an absolute rule that in every case a failure to produce some profit to those who have invested their money in the building of a road is conclusive that the tariff is unjust and unreasonable.