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... demurrer must be sustained . In this opinion the other judges concurred.1 WEYMOUTH v . PENOBSCOT LOG DRIVING CO . SUPREME COURT OF MAINE , 1880 . [ 71 Me . 29.2 ] AN action on the case to recover damages of the defendant corpora- tion ...
... demurrer must be sustained . In this opinion the other judges concurred.1 WEYMOUTH v . PENOBSCOT LOG DRIVING CO . SUPREME COURT OF MAINE , 1880 . [ 71 Me . 29.2 ] AN action on the case to recover damages of the defendant corpora- tion ...
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... demurrer to the declaration judgment was rendered for the defendants . The first count of the declaration charges that the plaintiff was engaged in the business of transporting petroleum oils by means of pipe lines and tank cars from ...
... demurrer to the declaration judgment was rendered for the defendants . The first count of the declaration charges that the plaintiff was engaged in the business of transporting petroleum oils by means of pipe lines and tank cars from ...
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... demurrer . So long as the corporation retains its franchise , it will not be allowed to urge as an excuse for failing to perform any duty required of it by its charter , that the same would be unprofitable . It cannot consistently keep ...
... demurrer . So long as the corporation retains its franchise , it will not be allowed to urge as an excuse for failing to perform any duty required of it by its charter , that the same would be unprofitable . It cannot consistently keep ...
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... demurred ; and adjudged without argu- ment for the plaintiff . For the defendant , if he will keep an inn , ought at his peril to keep safely his guests ' goods ; and although he be sick , his servants then ought carefully to look to ...
... demurred ; and adjudged without argu- ment for the plaintiff . For the defendant , if he will keep an inn , ought at his peril to keep safely his guests ' goods ; and although he be sick , his servants then ought carefully to look to ...
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... demurred to the declaration.1 DOE , J. I. A common carrier is a public carrier . He engages in a public employment , takes upon himself a public duty , and exercises a sort of public office . Sandford v . R. Co. , 24 Pa . St. 378 , 381 ...
... demurred to the declaration.1 DOE , J. I. A common carrier is a public carrier . He engages in a public employment , takes upon himself a public duty , and exercises a sort of public office . Sandford v . R. Co. , 24 Pa . St. 378 , 381 ...
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Page 213 - 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, 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...
Page 536 - 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.
Page 570 - ... a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers or property, subject to the provisions of this act, than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby...
Page 476 - 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.
Page 52 - Constitution protects, we find that when private property is 'affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only.
Page 570 - States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States, and also to the transportation in like manner of property shipped from any place in the United States to a foreign country and carried from such place to a port of trans-shipment, or shipped from a foreign country to any place in the United States and carried to such place from a port of entry either in the United States or an adjacent foreign country...
Page 569 - ... from one State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or from any place in the United States...
Page 599 - 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...
Page 571 - ... keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted...
Page 600 - That upon application to the Commission appointed under the provisions of this act, such common carrier may, in special cases, after investigation by the Commission, be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers or property ; and the Commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved from the operation of this section of this act.