Reports of Cases Decided by the Railway and Canal Commissioners, Volume 4Sweet and Maxwell., 1885 Vols. 1-6 and 8-16 each contain digest of railway cases decided in the Superior Court of Law. |
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agreement allowance amount Andover appears applicants arbitration Bannister Belfast Central Birkenhead Burton Caledonian Company Canal Traffic Act Carmarthen Junction carriage carried carrier Central Wales charge claim collieries company's consignments conveyance costs Court defendants Derby difference distance Dublin Eastern engineers entitled expenses favour FREDERICK PEEL Glasgow Greenock Grimsby Halesowen Holyhead judgment jurisdiction Lincolnshire Llandilo Llandilo Station Llanelly London and North Lynn Marlborough Meath Midland Company miles North Wales North Western Company North Western Railway Northern Oakengates pany passengers Peterborough plaintiffs Possil Park proposed question Rail Railway and Canal Railway Commissioners Railways Act receipts reference regards Regulation of Railways respect respondents route sect Sheffield sidings Sighthill Solicitors South Wales South Wales coal South Yorkshire Southern Company special Act steamers Swindon terminal services tion tolls tons trains trucks viâ waggons Wales and Carmarthen Wemyss Bay Wemyss Bay Company Western Railway Company WESTERN Rr
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Page 457 - ... no such company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 445 - ... carriages of the same description, and conveyed or propelled by a like carriage or engine, passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances ; and no reduction or advance in any such tolls shall be made either directly or indirectly in favour of or against any particular company or person travelling upon or using the railway.
Page 437 - ... provided that all such tolls be at all times charged equally to all persons, and after the same rate, whether per ton per mile or otherwise, in respect of all passengers, and of all goods or carriages of the same description, and conveyed or propelled by a like carriage or engine, passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances...
Page xviii - ... from all liability for loss or damage by delay in transit or from whatever other cause arising...
Page 14 - Act, to build, or buy, or hire, and to use, maintain, and work, or to enter into arrangements for using, maintaining, or working steam vessels for the purpose of carrying on a communication between any towns or ports...
Page 445 - And whereas it is expedient that the company should be enabled to vary the tolls upon the railway so as to accommodate them to the circumstances of the traffic, but that such power of varying should not be used for the purpose of prejudicing or favouring particular parties, or for the purpose of collusively and unfairly creating a monopoly, either in the hands of the company or of particular parties...
Page xv - ... for any loss or damage arising from perils of the seas, or from machinery, boilers, or steam, or from any act, neglect, or default whatsoever of the pilot, master, or mariners...
Page 475 - ... any part of the company's railway, or not having travelled or not being about to travel on any part thereof, or in favour of or against any person using the railway in consequence of his having used or being about to use, or his not having used or not being about to use, the steam vessels ; and where an aggregate sum is charged by the company for conveyance of a passenger by a steam vessel and on the railway, the ticket shall have the amount of toll charged for conveyance by the steam vessel...
Page 408 - ... to such conveyance (except a reasonable sum for loading, covering, and unloading of goods at any terminal station of such goods, and for delivery and collection, and any other services incidental to the duty or business of a carrier, where such services or any of them are or is performed by the Company) shall not exceed the following sums — that is to say : For every animal in Class 1 , 4d.
Page 445 - ... collusively and unfairly creating a monopoly, either in the hands of the company or of particular parties ; it shall be lawful, therefore, for the company, subject to the provisions and limitations herein...