Digest of Decisions of the Courts and Interstate Commerce Commission Under the Act to Regulate Commerce from 1887 to 1908E.B. Peirce, 1908 - 1205 pages |
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... undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person , company , firm , est- peration , or locality , or any particular description of traffe , in any respect whatsoever , or to subject any particular person , company ...
... undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person , company , firm , est- peration , or locality , or any particular description of traffe , in any respect whatsoever , or to subject any particular person , company ...
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... undue and unreasonable preferences or discriminations . - Texas & Pacific Ry Co. V. Interstate Commerce Commission , ( 1896 ) 162 U. S. 197 , 16 Sup . Ct . R. 666 , 40 L. Ed . 940 . 5. The principal objects of the Act were to secure ...
... undue and unreasonable preferences or discriminations . - Texas & Pacific Ry Co. V. Interstate Commerce Commission , ( 1896 ) 162 U. S. 197 , 16 Sup . Ct . R. 666 , 40 L. Ed . 940 . 5. The principal objects of the Act were to secure ...
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... undue preference to some shippers of live stock and subjected other shippers to undue prejudice . - Shamberg v . Delaware , L. & W. Rd . Co. et al . , ( 1891 ) 4 I. C. C. R. 630 , 3 I. C. R. 502 . Allowance for compression of cotton ...
... undue preference to some shippers of live stock and subjected other shippers to undue prejudice . - Shamberg v . Delaware , L. & W. Rd . Co. et al . , ( 1891 ) 4 I. C. C. R. 630 , 3 I. C. R. 502 . Allowance for compression of cotton ...
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... undue favoritism . - United States v . West Virginia N. R. Co. et al . , ( 1903 ) 125 Fed . Rep . 252 ; affirmed , 134 Fed . Rep . 198 , 67 C. C. A. 220 . 5. While the capacity of a shipper of coal may be greater than his allotment of ...
... undue favoritism . - United States v . West Virginia N. R. Co. et al . , ( 1903 ) 125 Fed . Rep . 252 ; affirmed , 134 Fed . Rep . 198 , 67 C. C. A. 220 . 5. While the capacity of a shipper of coal may be greater than his allotment of ...
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... undue or un- reasonable preference or advantage . " Section 15 of the Act authorizes the Com- mission to determine and prescribe " what regulation or practice in respect to such transportation is just , fair and reasonable to be ...
... undue or un- reasonable preference or advantage . " Section 15 of the Act authorizes the Com- mission to determine and prescribe " what regulation or practice in respect to such transportation is just , fair and reasonable to be ...
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Page 10 - Any person may be compelled to appear and depose and to produce documentary evidence in the same manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and produce documentary evidence before the commission as hereinbefore provided.
Page 10 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 7 - ... refund or remit in any manner or by any device any portion of the rates, fares, and charges so specified, nor extend to any shipper or person any privileges or facilities in the transportation of passengers or property, except such as are specified in such tariffs: J'ronded, That wherever the word 'carrier' occurs in this Act it shall be held to mean 'common carrier.
Page 10 - Such attendance of witnesses, and the production of such documentary evidence, may be required from any place in the United States, at any designated place of hearing.
Page 9 - ... the date of the taking effect of this Act, the term of each to be designated by the President, but their successors shall be appointed for terms of seven years, except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the commissioner whom he shall succeed.
Page 8 - That any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act, or, whenever such common carrier is a corporation, any director or officer thereof, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent, or person acting for or employed by such corporation...
Page 21 - When construing and enforcing the provisions of this act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any...
Page 10 - Reasonable notice must first be given in writing by the party or his attorney proposing to take such deposition to the opposite party or his attorney of record, as either may be nearest, which notice shall state the name of the witness and the time and place of the taking of his deposition.
Page 21 - From and after May first, nineteen hundred and eight, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to transport from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole, or in part, or in which it may have any interest direct or indirect...
Page 9 - ... hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction within the district in which such offense was committed, be subject for each offense to a fine of not exceeding five thousand dollars or imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.