American Railroad and Corporation Reports: Being a Collection of the Current Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort in the United States Pertaining to Railroad and Corporation Law, Volumen10John Lewis E.B. Myers, 1895 |
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... trains , and for reaching said water tank , coal dock , turntable and round- house . Said engine house was not large enough for the business of the company , and additions were contemplated . To extend said street as projected would not ...
... trains , and for reaching said water tank , coal dock , turntable and round- house . Said engine house was not large enough for the business of the company , and additions were contemplated . To extend said street as projected would not ...
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... trains . The turntable , the water tank , the engine house , the coal dock , are , each and all , not only generally essential to the business and successful operation of a line of railway , but in this instance they were made to serve ...
... trains . The turntable , the water tank , the engine house , the coal dock , are , each and all , not only generally essential to the business and successful operation of a line of railway , but in this instance they were made to serve ...
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... trains . As shown by the foregoing statement , there were upon the 100 - foot strip , at the point of the proposed street crossings , eight parallel railway tracks connected by switches . Two were used for passenger trains , two for ...
... trains . As shown by the foregoing statement , there were upon the 100 - foot strip , at the point of the proposed street crossings , eight parallel railway tracks connected by switches . Two were used for passenger trains , two for ...
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... trains in the yard , it was held that the com- pany was entitled to recover damages to its yard caused by laying out the street at the point in question . The court says : " The company was shown to own , and be in use of , a large ...
... trains in the yard , it was held that the com- pany was entitled to recover damages to its yard caused by laying out the street at the point in question . The court says : " The company was shown to own , and be in use of , a large ...
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... trains , etc. , now carried on , after the open- ing of the proposed street . The witnesses were asked and approximated the average daily increased expenditure to the railway company by reason thereof . It is , in effect , conceded that ...
... trains , etc. , now carried on , after the open- ing of the proposed street . The witnesses were asked and approximated the average daily increased expenditure to the railway company by reason thereof . It is , in effect , conceded that ...
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Página 483 - Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 196, 6 L. ed. 23, 70, where he said: "We are now arrived at the inquiry, What is this power? It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Página 475 - ... 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.
Página 775 - The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.
Página 474 - ... keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted, and shall have the right to obtain from such common carriers full and complete information necessary to enable the Commission to perform the duties and carry out the objects for which it was created...
Página 756 - The several circuit courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act; and it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney-General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
Página 483 - If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations and among the several . states is vested in congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government having in its Constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the Constitution of the United States.
Página 472 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this 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...
Página 96 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by Courts of justice.
Página 475 - 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.
Página 766 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.