Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending ..., Opseg 23State of Iowa, 1901 |
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Stranica 371 - ... 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 carrier to give the use of its tracks or terminal facilities to another carrier engaged in like business.
Stranica 376 - All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Stranica 390 - If each State was at liberty to regulate the conduct of carriers while within its jurisdiction, the confusion likely to follow could not but be productive of great inconvenience and unnecessary hardship.
Stranica 387 - Every railroad corporation shall cause its passenger trains to stop upon its arrival at each station advertised by such corporation as a place for receiving and discharging passengers, upon and from such trains, a sufficient length of time to receive and let off such passengers with safety : Provided, All regular passenger trains shall stop a sufficient length of time at the railroad station of county seats, to receive and let off passengers with safety...
Stranica 13 - ... whose duty it shall be, if they deem it necessary, to investigate the same, and promptly report to the governor the extent of the personal injuries, or loss of life, and whether the same was the result of the mismanagement or neglect of the corporation on whose line the injury or loss of life occurred.
Stranica 371 - The rate per ton per mile rule brings rates down to the narrowest point of scrutiny, and for that purpose is valuable; but it excludes consideration of other circumstances and conditions which enter into the making of rates, no matter how compulsory or imperious they may be, and it can not, therefore, be accepted as controlling in determining the reasonableness of rates.
Stranica 388 - Rep., 289), and declaring that when a common carrier accepts for transportation anything directed to a point of destination beyond the terminus of his own line or route, he shall be deemed thereby to assume an obligation for its safe carriage to such point of destination, unless at the time of such acceptance such carrier be released or exempted from such liability 'by contract in writing, signed by the owner or his agent (Richmond <£• AR Co.
Stranica 388 - Few classes of cases have become more common of recent years than those wherein the police power of the state over the vehicles of interstate commerce has been drawn in question. That such power exists and will be enforced, notwithstanding the constitutional authority of Congress to regulate such commerce, is evident from the large number of cases in which we have sustained the validity of local laws designed to secure the safety and comfort of passengers, employees, persons crossing railway tracks,...
Stranica 375 - ... allowed at interior points, while only 48 hours are allowed on other traffic at interior points. Section 2 prohibits unjust discrimination in "the transportation of a like kind of traffic," and does not apply where the traffic is of different kinds or classes not competitive with each other.
Stranica 390 - The public demand this; the railway and steamship companies are anxious in their own interests to furnish it, and local legislation ought not to stand in the way of it. With no disposition whatever to vary or qualify the cases above cited, neither the conclusions of the court nor the tenor of the opinions are opposed to the principle we hold to in this case that, after all local conditions have been adequately met, railways have the legal right to adopt special provisions for through traffic, and...