| 1899 - 2060 páginas
...would tend to relieve him of his duty to be careful. The following are extracts from this opinion. "The carrier and his customer do not stand on a footing of equality. The latter is one individual of a million. He cannot afford to higgle or stand out. and seek redress in the courts.... | |
| 1884 - 978 páginas
...the companies exercising the business ot common carriers is such that it places it in their power to change the law of common carriers, in effect, by introducing...higgle or stand out and seek redress in the courts. Ills business will not admit such a course. He prefers, rather, to accept any bill of lading, or sign... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1889 - 762 páginas
...customer do not stand upon a footing of equality. The individual customer has no real freedom of choice. He cannot afford to higgle or stand out, and seek redress in the courts. He prefers rather to accept any bill of lading, or to sign any paper, that the carrier presents ; and... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1885 - 944 páginas
...physical duress. " In the case of Railroad Co. v. Lockwood, 17 Wall. 379, Mr. Justice BKADLBY says: " The carrier and his customer do not stand on a footing of equality. The latter is only one of a million. He cannot afford to higgle or stand out and seek redress in courts. His business will... | |
| 1885 - 544 páginas
...says: "The carrier and hie customer do riot stand on a footing of equality. The latter is only one of a million. He cannot afford, to higgle or stand out and seek redress in courts. His business will not admit of such a course. He prefers rather to accept any bill of lading,... | |
| West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1885 - 940 páginas
...for exemptions from responsibilities. The court say : "The carrier and his customer do not stand upon a footing of equality. The latter is only one individual of a million. He can not afford to higgle or stand out and seek redress in the courts. His business will not admit of... | |
| 1886 - 956 páginas
...reason given for holding the contract void as opposed to public policy is that in making the contract the carrier and his customer do not stand on a footing of equality; that the latter is only one individual against a powerful corporation, which has Mm in its power; and... | |
| 1886 - 968 páginas
...reason given for holding the contract void as opposed to public policy, is that in making the contract the carrier and his customer do not stand on a footing of equality ; that the latter is only one individual against a powerful corporation, which has him in its power,... | |
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