[PDF] Digest Of Decisions Of The Courts And Interstate Commerce Commission Under The Act To Regulate Commerce From 1887 To 1908 eBook

Author : Edward Beauchamp Peirce
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230134956

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Coast Line Ed. Co., (1905) 11 I. C. C. B. 464. 1066. Defendant's passenger rate from Fernandina, Fla., to Savannah, Ga., was about 4 cents per mile. The local rate in both Florida and Georgia was 3 cents per mile. By reason of the character of the soil between Fernandina and Savannah the road was more expensive to maintain than other parts of defendant's line. The freight traffic originating thereon was almost nothing and the passenger traffic insignificant. A reduction of the 4-cent rate would not have resulted in material increase of passenger business, but in decrease of earnings to an amount below the average upon defendant's system and upon other roads in that section. Held, that while ordinarily the through fare should not exceed the sum of the locals, the through rate, in view of the circumstances, was not unreasonable.--Artz v. Seaboard Air Line By. Co., (1905) 11 I. C. C. B. 458. 1067. The through passenger fare over the Eureka Springs Railway from Seligman, Mo., to Eureka Springs, Ark., a distance of 18% miles, was $1.85. The local rate between stations in Arkansas, prescribed by statute of that state, was 5 cents per mile. The local rate prescribed by the statute of Missouri was 4 cents per mile. The aggregate fare between Scligman and Eureka Springs, measured by the charges in Arkansas and Missouri, would have been 82 V. cents. Held, that while ordinarily the through fare between Seligman and Eureka Springs should not exceed the aggregate of charges which were lawful in Arkansas and Missouri, the apparent decline in the annual earnings of defendant warranted a through faro not higher than $1.20.--Railroad Commissioners of Missouri v. Eureka Springs Ry. Co., (1897) 7 L C. C. E. 69. 1068. Passenger rate from Washington, D. C, ...

Author : Herbert Confield Lust
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780331541403

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Excerpt from Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act, 1908: Number Two The decisions are arranged chronologically under each section, the most recent decisions being placed last, in this respect reversing the former method of treatment, except that United States Supreme Court decisions are placed first. If the decisions of the Interstate Com merc'e Commission has been modified or reviewed by any court rehear ing denied, dissenting or concurring opinion filed, such fact 13 noted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.