Cases on Public Service Companies, Public Carriers, Public Works, and Other Public UtilitiesHarvard University Press, 1920 - 615 pages |
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... entering upon a great and impor- tant development of the common law . What branches of industry will eventually be of such public importance as to be included in the category of public callings , and to what extent the control of the ...
... entering upon a great and impor- tant development of the common law . What branches of industry will eventually be of such public importance as to be included in the category of public callings , and to what extent the control of the ...
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... entered and landed and secured in the port of London without payment of duties at the time of the first entry : and then it says that it shall be lawful for the im- porter of certain goods enumerated in table A. to secure the same in ...
... entered and landed and secured in the port of London without payment of duties at the time of the first entry : and then it says that it shall be lawful for the im- porter of certain goods enumerated in table A. to secure the same in ...
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... entered into , he had suffered damages , the case would have been very different . But this is not the nature of his claim . He claimed and has recovered damages and it would seem exemplary damages , simply on the ground that it was the ...
... entered into , he had suffered damages , the case would have been very different . But this is not the nature of his claim . He claimed and has recovered damages and it would seem exemplary damages , simply on the ground that it was the ...
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... entered on the verdict . And it may be assumed that defendants ' mill was a public grist - mill , propelled by a head of water obtained under authority of the mill act , R. S. , c . 92 . Assuming the mill to be a public mill , and the ...
... entered on the verdict . And it may be assumed that defendants ' mill was a public grist - mill , propelled by a head of water obtained under authority of the mill act , R. S. , c . 92 . Assuming the mill to be a public mill , and the ...
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... entering the telegraph office for the purpose of sending a message has been met with disrespect- ful or insulting treatment at the hands of the company's agent . It is immaterial that the person thus injured had no personal interest in ...
... entering the telegraph office for the purpose of sending a message has been met with disrespect- ful or insulting treatment at the hands of the company's agent . It is immaterial that the person thus injured had no personal interest in ...
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Page 213 - 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...
Page 536 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 570 - ... 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 476 - What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return upon the value of that which it employs for the public convenience. On the other hand, what the public is entitled to demand is that no more be exacted from it for the use of a public highway than the services rendered by it are reasonably worth.
Page 52 - Constitution protects, we find that when private property is 'affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only.
Page 570 - States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States, and also to the transportation in like manner of property shipped from any place in the United States to a foreign country and carried from such place to a port of trans-shipment, or shipped from a foreign country to any place in the United States and carried to such place from a port of entry either in the United States or an adjacent foreign country...
Page 569 - ... from one State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or from any place in the United States...
Page 599 - 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 571 - ... keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted...
Page 600 - 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 from the operation of this section of this act.