... persons or traffic similarly circumstanced, the act to regulate commerce leaves common carriers as they were at the common law, free to make special contracts looking to the increase of their business, to classify their traffic, to adjust and apportion... Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission - Page 31by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1895Full view - About this book
| Bruce Wyman - 1920 - 638 pages
...their rates so as to meet the necessities of commerce and of their own situation and relation to it, and generally to manage their important interests...are regarded as sound, and adopted, in other trades aud pursuits. The carriers are better qualified to adjust such matters than any court or board of public... | |
| Washington (State). Supreme Court, Arthur Remington, Solon Dickerson Williams - 1921 - 840 pages
...regulate commerce leaves comOpinion Per MACKINTOSH, J. [112 Wash. mon carriers as they were at the common law, free to make special contracts looking...as sound and adopted in other trades and pursuits." In Texas & Pacific R. Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 162 TJ. S. 197, occurs the following:... | |
| Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1922 - 1072 pages
...charged, and prescribe the division of such rates.-0 The Interstate Commerce Commission was also eraat common law, free to make special contracts looking...as sound and adopted in other trades and pursuits." To the same effect is the decision in Interst. Com. Com. v. Northeastern &c. R. Co., 74 Fed. 70; Interstate... | |
| 1898 - 1070 pages
...traffic similarly circumstanced, the act to regulate commerce leaves common carriers as they were at the common law, — free to make special contracts looking...sound, and adopted in other trades and pursuits." 162 US 184, 197, 16 Sup. Ct. 700, 705. And not only has the commission no power to fix maximum rates,... | |
| 1898 - 1020 pages
...their rates so as to meet the necessities of commerce and of their own situation and relation to it, and, generally, to manage their Important Interests...sound and adopted In other trades and pursuits. The carriers are better qualified to adjust such matters than any court or board of public administration;... | |
| Young Berryman Smith, Noel Thomas Dowling - 1926 - 1310 pages
...traffic similarly circumstanced, the act to regulate commerce leaves common carriers as they were at the common law, free to make special contracts looking...sound, and adopted in other trades and pursuits." * * * it to prepay the charges on its freight while the carrier customarily transported freight for... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 1214 pages
...Regulate Commerce leaves common carriers as they were at the common law, free ... to adjust and »pportion their rates so as to meet the necessities of commerce,...sound, and adopted in other trades and pursuits." Cincinnati, N. 0. A TPR Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 162 US 197 (40: 939), б Inters. Com.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 1502 pages
...their rates, so as to meet the necessities of commerce and of their own situation and relation to it, and, generally, to manage their important interests...as sound and adopted in other trades and pursuits; and when the reshipping practice admittedly has been found by the carriers to "adroitly" meet the competitive... | |
| Edgar Watkins, J. Haden Alldredge - 1930 - 1382 pages
...their rates so as to meet the necessities of commerce and of their own situation and relation to it, and generally to manage their important interests...as sound and adopted in other trades and pursuits. ' "It follows that railroad companies may contract with shippers for a single transportation or for... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, United States - 1930 - 940 pages
...L. ed. 772, 39 Sup. Ct. Rep. 375. Carriers are free to generally manage their Important Interests on the same principles which are regarded as sound and adopted in other pursuits. — Interstate Commerce Commission v. Alabama Midland Ry. Co., 168 US 144, 42 L. ed. 414,... | |
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