 January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and...  Harvard Law Review - Page 7651917Full view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1910 - 858 pages
...State any car used in moving traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars : Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall apply to trains composed of four wheeled cars... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners - 1895 - 682 pages
...used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars. § 3. That when any person, firm, company, or corporation engaged in interstate commerce by railroad... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1921 - 688 pages
...car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars." It was proved on the trial by defendant in error that there was in general use on railroad cars in... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1914 - 718 pages
...any particular automatic coupler. Any standard coupler which will couple automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the cars, will satisfy the requirements of the Federal and State Safety Appliance acts. 9. SAME — violation... | |
 | 1911 - 1122 pages
...each car used in moving inter-State traffic with couplers which couple automatically by impact and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars. The lower court held that the statute did not impose upon the carrier an absolute duty to keep its... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners - 1898 - 1216 pages
...brake ; and (3) that cars should be equipped with " couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars." These provisions do not, however, apply to " trains composed of four-wheel cars, or to locomotives... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1911 - 668 pages
...equip cars being used in moving state traffic, ''with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars," and the use of such cars without the required equipment is unlawful. 2. It 1s the duty of the railway... | |
 | 1907 - 2094 pages
...traffic, and which cars are not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which cars can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of Ae cars. It is contended with much earnestness that as this is a penal statute the statute must be... | |
 | 1909 - 2094 pages
...each end of every car must be in such condition that whenever called upon for use it can be operated without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars. The law also means that each car must be equipped with an uncoupling lever on each end thereof, by... | |
 | 1910 - 1052 pages
...use any car in interstate traffic "not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the cars." Clearly it prohibits the use of certain couplers. As stated in Johnson v. Southern Pacific Company,... | |
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