Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volumen151L.K. Strouse, 1929 |
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Alabama applicable Asso Atchison Atlantic average Baltimore basis car-mile carloads carriers cars central territory Cents Cents cents per 100 Chicago class rates coal COMMISSIONERS commodity rates complainant complainant's contend cost cotton defendants distance district East Rochester fertilizer materials fifth-class rates filed fire doors first-class rates Florida fourth-section freight grain Grand Saline haul interstate intrastate Iowa Jacksonville Kansas City less-than-carload Little Rock livestock loading long ton Louis Louisiana lumber mechanically operated fire miles mills minimum Mississippi River Missouri Missouri River moved movement North Carolina North Hoosick official classification Ohio Ohio River Okla Oklahoma operated fire doors origin Orleans Pacific packing-house products Pennsylvania points ports pounds proposed rail Railway rates assailed rates charged reasonable refrigeration charges reparation respondents routes scale shipments shipped shippers sixth-class South Southern Sub-No switching tariff terra cotta Texas tion ton-mile traffic transportation trunk-line undue prejudice unduly prejudicial unreasonable Utah vanadium Western York
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Página 661 - The constitutional guaranty protects the carrier from arbitrary action and from the appropriation of its property to public purposes outside the undertaking assumed; and where it is established that a commodity, or a class of traffic, has been segregated and a rate imposed which would compel the carrier to transport it for less than the proper cost of transportation, or virtually at cost, and thus the carrier would be denied a reasonable reward for its service after taking into account the entire...
Página 862 - Congress to promote, encourage, and develop water transportation, service, and facilities In connection with the commerce of the United States, and to foster and preserve in full vigor both rail and water transportation.
Página 174 - It is a maxim, not to be disregarded, that general expressions, in every opinion, are to be taken in connection with the case in which those expressions are used. If they go beyond the case, they may be respected, but ought not to control the judgment in a subsequent suit, when the very point is presented for decision.
Página 156 - Act. (4) Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing, finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Página 456 - In the case at bar, the function exercised by the Commission is wholly legislative. Its authority to legislate is limited to establishing a reasonable rule. But in establishing a rule of general application, it is not a condition of its validity that there be adduced evidence of its appropriateness in respect to every railroad to which it will be applicable. In this connection, the Commission, like other legislators, may reason from the particular to the general.
Página 447 - The requirements here in question are, in their nature, within the scope of the authority delegated to the Commission. An automatic firedoor and an effective cab curtain may promote safety. Keeping firemen and engineers in good health, like preventing excessive fatigue through limiting the hours of service, clearly does so, although indirectly; and it may be found that to promote their comfort would likewise promote safety.
Página 662 - In using the above composite figure in the determination of this issue the Department necessarily ignored, in the first place, the differences in the average unit cost on the several systems ; and then the differences on each in the cost incident to the different classes of traffic and articles of merchandise, and to the widely varying conditions under which the transportation is conducted. In this unit cost figure no account is taken of the differences in unit cost dependent, among other things,...
Página 211 - They failed to make or publish any rate applicable to that part of the transportation. Section 8 makes them liable for damages sustained in consequence of such failure. Had the through rate been just and reasonable, no damages would have resulted to plaintiff in -error. Its right to reparation does not depend upon the amounts retained by defendants in error pursuant to agreed divisions.
Página 714 - ... from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States...
Página 714 - Territory, or from any place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States, or from or to any place in the United States to or from a foreign country, but only in so far as such transportation or transmission takes place within the United States.