Cases on the Law of Public Service: Including the Law Peculiar to Common Carriers and InnkeepersLittle, Brown, 1924 - 738 páginas |
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... corporation is guilty of a breach of public duty by misfeasance or nonfeasance , the law provides a remedy . The true criterion by which to judge of the character of the use is , whether the public may enjoy it of right , or by ...
... corporation is guilty of a breach of public duty by misfeasance or nonfeasance , the law provides a remedy . The true criterion by which to judge of the character of the use is , whether the public may enjoy it of right , or by ...
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... corporation , the business of which is private and not of a public nature , and to meet a public necessity , and as a consequence , that it should not be subjected to duties or obligations that are not binding upon other private ...
... corporation , the business of which is private and not of a public nature , and to meet a public necessity , and as a consequence , that it should not be subjected to duties or obligations that are not binding upon other private ...
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... corporation engaged in the manufacture of articles that may be quite as indispensable to some persons as are gas lights . The former articles may be supplied by individual effort , and with their supply the government has no such ...
... corporation engaged in the manufacture of articles that may be quite as indispensable to some persons as are gas lights . The former articles may be supplied by individual effort , and with their supply the government has no such ...
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... corporation , and the grant of the city was to enable it to carry it into effect . And " if the supplying of a city or town with water , " as VAN SYCKEL , J. , said , " is not a public purpose , it is difficult to conceive of any ...
... corporation , and the grant of the city was to enable it to carry it into effect . And " if the supplying of a city or town with water , " as VAN SYCKEL , J. , said , " is not a public purpose , it is difficult to conceive of any ...
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... corporation can be formed under more than one of the statutes , or can be clothed with the powers and franchises conferred upon two or more of the separate classes of corporations such as may be created under " The appellee is a corporation ...
... corporation can be formed under more than one of the statutes , or can be clothed with the powers and franchises conferred upon two or more of the separate classes of corporations such as may be created under " The appellee is a corporation ...
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Página 428 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Página 248 - Under pretense of regulating fares and freights, the state cannot require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without reward; neither can it do that which in law amounts to a taking of private property for public use without just compensation, or without due process of law.
Página 265 - What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return upon the value of that which it employs for the public convenience. On the other hand, what the public is entitled to demand is that no more be exacted from it for the use of a public highway than the services rendered by it are reasonably worth.
Página 483 - ... which may be constructed to connect with its railroad, where such connection is reasonably practicable and can be put in with safety and will furnish sufficient business to justify the construction and maintenance of the same...
Página 416 - Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Página 59 - Constitution protects, we find that when private property is 'affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only.
Página 89 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Página 247 - A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will or even at the whim, of the Legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great offices of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law...
Página 580 - And this is a politic establishment, contrived by the policy of the law, for the safety of all persons, the necessity of whose affairs oblige them to trust these sorts of persons, that they may be safe in their ways of dealing...
Página 657 - The carrier and his customer do not stand on a footing of equality. The latter is only one individual of a million. He cannot afford to higgle or stand out and seek redress in the courts.