Railroads: Cases and Selections

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Eliot Jones, Homer Bews Vanderblue
Macmillan, 1925 - 880 страници
 

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Страница 58 - the basis of all calculations as to the reasonableness of rates to be charged by a corporation maintaining a highway under legislative sanction must be the fair value of the property being used by it for the convenience of the public."
Страница 535 - issuance— (a) is for some lawful object within its corporate purposes, and compatible with the public interest, which is necessary or appropriate for or consistent with the proper performance by the carrier of service to the public as a common carrier, and which will not impair its ability to perform that service, and (6) is reasonably necessary and appropriate for such
Страница 621 - as it may prescribe, and thereupon such consolidation may be effected, in accordance with such order, if all the carriers involved assent thereto, the law of any State or the decision or order of any State authority to the contrary notwithstanding. The
Страница 666 - United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers. Order of Railroad Telegraphers. Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Order of Railway Conductors. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America. International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers. National
Страница 292 - all acts of all its officers and agents: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply in any case of casualty or unavoidable accident or the act of God; nor where the delay was the result of a cause not known to the carrier or its officer or agent in charge of such
Страница 55 - under pretense of regulating fares and freights, the State cannot require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without reward; neither can it do that which in law amounts to a taking of property for public use without just compensation, or
Страница 453 - This test apparently rests on a construction of that part of the new Act which requires the Commission to find that the security issue relates to "the proper performance by the carrier of service to the public as a
Страница 604 - and acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, commonly known as the Pacific Railroad acts, these lines are required to be operated and used for all purposes of communication, travel, and transportation, so far as the public and Government are concerned, as one connected continuous line, and
Страница 846 - thus emphatically stated in the elaborate report of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce which accompanied it: "The provisions of the bill are based upon the theory that the paramount evil chargeable against the operation of the transportation system of the United States as now conducted is unjust discrimination between persons, places, commodities, or particular descriptions of traffic. The
Страница 668 - in wages or of treatment, the result of previous wage orders or adjustments. Besides the circumstances set out above, the act provides the Board shall consider in determining wages "other relevant circumstances." This, it understands, comprehends, among other things, the effect the action of this Board may have on other wages and

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