Annual ReportThe Commission, 1909 |
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Angeles and Salt Arcata and Mad Boca and Loyalton Butte County Railroad Caldor Railway California Northeastern Railway California Railway Capital stock carrier Cash and current City and Otay City and Smith Colusa and Lake Cost of equipment Cost of road County Narrow Gauge current assets Current liabilities Cuyamaca and Eastern Diamond and Caldor Eastern Railway Eureka and Freshwater freight Freshwater Railway Interstate Commerce Commission Juan Pacific Railway Loyalton Railroad Mad River Railroad McCloud River Railroad Mount Tamalpais Napa Railway Nevada County Narrow Nevada-California-Oregon Railway Northwestern Pacific Railroad Oregon and Eureka Otay Railway Pacific Coast Railway Pajaro Valley Consolidated Profit and loss Sacramento Valley San Francisco San Juan Pacific San Pedro Santa Fe Railway shipments shippers Sierra Railway Company Sierra Valleys Railway South Pacific Coast Southern Pacific Company Southern Pacific Railroad Sunset Railroad Tidewater Railroad Tonopah and Tidewater Topeka and Santa transportation companies unjust discrimination Valley and Eastern Yosemite Valley Railway
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Page 68 - Said Commissioners shall have the power, and it shall be their duty, to establish rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight by railroad or other transportation companies, and publish the same from time to time, with such changes as they may make; to examine the books, records, and papers of all railroad and other transportation companies...
Page 7 - Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal 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...
Page 58 - Any railroad corporation or transportation company which shall fail or refuse to conform to such rates as shall be established by such Commissioners, or shall charge rates in excess thereof, or shall fail to keep their accounts in accordance with the system prescribed by the Commission, shall be fined not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for each offense, and every officer, agent, or employe...
Page 68 - No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made by any railroad or other transportation company between places or persons, or in the facilities for the transportation of the same classes of freight or passengers within this State, or coming from or going to any other State.
Page 64 - That if any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation...
Page 74 - ... to hear and determine complaints against railroad and other transportation companies, to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, take testimony, and punish for contempt of their orders and processes, in the same manner and to the same extent as Courts of record, and enforce their decisions and correct abuses through the medium of the Courts.
Page 64 - ... any rebate or other device by which two shippers, shipping over the same line, the same distance, under the same circumstances of carriage, are compelled to pay different prices therefor ; and we there held that the phrase " under substantially similar circumstances and conditions...
Page 8 - State of North Carolina on the relation of the Railroad Commissioners against such company." Either party may appeal to the Supreme Court from the judgment of the Superior Court under the same rules and regulations as...
Page 64 - under substantially similar circumstances and conditions," found in section 4: of the act, and where the matter of the long and short haul is considered, may have a broader meaning or a wider reach than the same phrase found in section 2. It will be time enough to determine that question when it is presented. For this case it is enough to hold that that phrase, as found in section 2, refers to the matter of carriage, and does not include competition.
Page 64 - Counsel insist that the purpose of the section was not to prohibit a carrier from rendering more service to one shipper than to another for the same charge, but only that for the same service the charge should be equal, and that the effect of this arrangement was simply the rendering to Mr. Bruening of a little greater service for the 15 cents than it did to Mr. Wolf. They say that the section contains no prohibition of extra service or extra privileges to one shipper over that rendered to another....