The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases, Affecting Railroads of Every Kind, Decided by the Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction in the United States, England, and Canada [1894-1913].E. Thompson Company, 1902 |
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... railway company received a car load of wheat for trans- portation , and , owing to delay in carriage and delivery at the point of destination , it was still in possession of the company , when a large part of it was destroyed by an ...
... railway company received a car load of wheat for trans- portation , and , owing to delay in carriage and delivery at the point of destination , it was still in possession of the company , when a large part of it was destroyed by an ...
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... railway company from Whelan to Spokane . The wheat was shipped by Chambers , the owner . The railway company delivered to Chambers two bills of lading exactly alike except in the quantity of wheat described therein , one of which is as ...
... railway company from Whelan to Spokane . The wheat was shipped by Chambers , the owner . The railway company delivered to Chambers two bills of lading exactly alike except in the quantity of wheat described therein , one of which is as ...
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... Railway Company , and its route was so changed as to extend from Greenville to Ninety- Six , in said state , with ... Railway Company was consolidated with a corporation existing under the laws of the state of North Carolina and of the ...
... Railway Company , and its route was so changed as to extend from Greenville to Ninety- Six , in said state , with ... Railway Company was consolidated with a corporation existing under the laws of the state of North Carolina and of the ...
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... railway that but for the efforts of the receiver and his personal friends the certificates could not have been placed . The railway under the receivership was conducted with the greatest economy . Every unnecessary expense was cut off ...
... railway that but for the efforts of the receiver and his personal friends the certificates could not have been placed . The railway under the receivership was conducted with the greatest economy . Every unnecessary expense was cut off ...
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... railway will not pay its mere operating expenses , the public has very little interest in the operation of the road or in its being kept in repair . " Several cases are quoted in the note to this case , the annotator admitting that they ...
... railway will not pay its mere operating expenses , the public has very little interest in the operation of the road or in its being kept in repair . " Several cases are quoted in the note to this case , the annotator admitting that they ...
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Page 672 - America in congress assembled, 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...
Page 659 - Received, subject to the classifications and tariffs in effect on the date of issue of this original bill of lading, at , 191 — , from , the property described below, in apparent good order, except as noted (contents and condition of contents of packages unknown...
Page 85 - It is apparent that the mere fact of classification is not sufficient to relieve a statute from the reach of the equality clause of the fourteenth amendment, and that in all cases it must appear not only that a classification has been made, but also that it is one based upon some reasonable ground — some difference which bears a just and proper relation to the attempted classification — and is not a mere arbitrary selection.
Page 431 - Municipal corporations owe their origin to, and derive their powers and rights wholly from, the legislature. It breathes into them the breath of life, without which they cannot exist. As it creates, so it may destroy. If it may destroy, it may abridge and control.
Page 116 - But it is not on slight implication and vague conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered as void. The opposition between the constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other.
Page 725 - The party holding the affirmative of the issue must produce the evidence to prove it; therefore, the burden of proof lies on the party who would be defeated if no evidence were given on either side.
Page 194 - Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that when any person shall sustain personal injury or loss of life while lawfully engaged or employed on or about the roads, works, depots, and premises of a railroad company, or in or about any train or car, therein or thereon, of which company such person is not an...
Page 552 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
Page 651 - That must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily, and without any such basis.
Page 394 - A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity...