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... questions connected with the regulation of commerce in this state . Respectfully , Your obedient servants , T. H. BENTON , Auditor of Public Accounts , Chairman . WM . LEESE , Attorney - General . BEN . R. COWDERY , Secretary of State ...
... questions connected with the regulation of commerce in this state . Respectfully , Your obedient servants , T. H. BENTON , Auditor of Public Accounts , Chairman . WM . LEESE , Attorney - General . BEN . R. COWDERY , Secretary of State ...
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... question of fact pertaining to the business of any common carrier sub- ject to the provisions of this act . SEC . 22. To carry out the provisions of this act without undue burden to the state officers who com- pose the board of ...
... question of fact pertaining to the business of any common carrier sub- ject to the provisions of this act . SEC . 22. To carry out the provisions of this act without undue burden to the state officers who com- pose the board of ...
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... questions in- volved . COMPLAINTS UNDER SECTION 13 . III . Complaints under section 13 of the act , of anything done or omitted to be done by any common carrier sub- ject to the provisions of the act in contravention of the provisions ...
... questions in- volved . COMPLAINTS UNDER SECTION 13 . III . Complaints under section 13 of the act , of anything done or omitted to be done by any common carrier sub- ject to the provisions of the act in contravention of the provisions ...
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... question of reasonableness and justice of rates . The reasonableness of a rate as between the shipper and the carrier is known as that rate which earns for the carrier that proportion of some return upon the capi- tal invested , after ...
... question of reasonableness and justice of rates . The reasonableness of a rate as between the shipper and the carrier is known as that rate which earns for the carrier that proportion of some return upon the capi- tal invested , after ...
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... question bears to the entire traffic of the road ; each commodity modi- fied in its relations to all others with respect to the in- surance risk entailed upon the carrier , with respect to specific gravity of cubical contents , and with ...
... question bears to the entire traffic of the road ; each commodity modi- fied in its relations to all others with respect to the in- surance risk entailed upon the carrier , with respect to specific gravity of cubical contents , and with ...
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aforesaid Answer filed BOARD OF TRANSPORTATION Burlington & Missouri Burlington & Quincy cents charges Chicago City & Omaha City & Pacific Class Columbus common carrier complainant Complaint filed corporation cost defendant depot grounds Dollars earnings elevators Elkhorn & Missouri Elmwood erect facilities freight Fremont Grand Island grant Hearing hundred miles Iowa Kans Kansas City Lease Contract Lincoln live stock located mile haul mileage Missouri Pacific Railway Missouri River Railroad Missouri Valley Railroad NAME OF ROAD November 19 Omaha & Republican operation Osceola Pacific Railway Company pany parties Passenger petition petitioner pounds public highway Quincy Railroad Company Rail Railroad in Nebraska reasonable Report and opinion Republican Valley respondent right-of-way secretaries shipment shippers of grain side track Single Deck Cars Sioux City South Omaha station Tekamah tion Total traffic transportation of coal Union Pacific Railway unjust and unreasonable Valley Railroad Company West Lincoln Wyoming
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Page 5 - ... whereupon a statement of the charges thus made shall be forwarded by the commission to such common carrier, who shall be called upon to satisfy the complaint or to answer the same in writing within a reasonable time, to be specified by the commission.
Page 77 - All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property and for the transmission of messages by telegraph, telephone, or cable, as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, shall be just and reasonable; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service or any part thereof is prohibited and declared to be unlawful: Provided.
Page 5 - ... it shall be the duty of the Commission to investigate the matters complained of in such manner and by such means as it shall deem proper.
Page 76 - Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines and those connecting therewith, and shall not discriminate in their rates and charges between such connecting lines; but this shall not be construed as requiring any such common carrier to give the use of its tracks or terminal...
Page 76 - 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...
Page 6 - Commission may conduct its proceedings in such manner as will best conduce to the proper dispatch of business and to the ends of justice.
Page 5 - That any person, firm, corporation, or association, or any mercantile, agricultural, or manufacturing society, or any body politic or municipal organization complaining of anything done or omitted to be done by any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act in contravention of the provisions thereof...
Page 75 - Railways heretofore constructed, or that may hereafter be constructed in this state, are hereby declared public highways, and shall be free to all persons for the transportation of their persons and property thereon, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law.
Page 51 - State, persons and property are subjected to all kinds of restraints and burdens, in order to secure the general comfort, health and prosperity of the State ; of the right of the legislature to do which, no question ever was, or upon acknowledged general principles, ever can be made, so far as natural persons are concerned.
Page 76 - Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper ;. and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines...