...disadvantage persons or traffic similarly circumstanced, the act leaves common carriers as they were at common law, free to make special contracts looking...important Interests upon the same principles which are recognized as sound, and adopted in other trades and pursuits. — Interstate Commerce Commission v.....

...discriminate so as to give undue preference or disadvantage, the act leaves common carriers, as they were at common law, free to make special contracts looking...their important interests upon the same principles as are regarded as sound and adopted in other trades and pursuits. — Cincinnati, NO & T. P. Ry. Co.,...

...regulate commerce leaves common carriers as they were at the common law, — free to make special rates e court of the district in which the defendant employer resides or in which of their own situation and relation to it, and generally to manage their important interests upon the...

...traffic similarly circumstanced, the Act to regulate Commerce leaves common carriers as they were at common law free to make special contracts looking...as sound and adopted in other trades and pursuits." The legislators and commissions that are demanding radical and drastic reductions in rates fail to...

...(118-119): And the court then commented upon the freedom of railroads, in the language of the court: * * * generally to manage their important interests upon...as sound and adopted in other trades and pursuits. The Great Western case from which I have just quoted is a rate case, but the statement of the court...

...is that in the absence of rates being unreasonably high or unjustly discriminatory the carriers are "free to make special contracts looking to the increase of their business." This language of course applies to the Interstate Commerce Act. but the purpose of the Wisconsin law,...

...traffic similarly circumstanced, the act to regulate commerce leaves common carriers as they were at the common law — free to make special contracts looking...as sound and adopted in other trades and pursuits. Conceding the same terms of both wholesale and retail rates for its transportation service." Again...

...traffic similarly circumstanced, the Act to Regulate Commerce leaves common carriers as they were at the common law, free to make special contracts looking...as sound and adopted in other trades and pursuits. [Id. 197.] The Social Circle case involved an order of the Commission which covered the question of...

...regulate commerce leaves common carriers, as they were at the common law, free to make special rates looking to the increase of their business, to classify...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 upon the...

...Interstate Commerce Act leaves the railroads as they were at common law, free to make special rates looking to the increase of their business, to classify...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 upon the...