Canadian Railway and Transport Cases, Volume 18Canada Law Book, 1916 - Railroad law |
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accident action agreement applicant company application was heard ASSISTANT CHIEF COMMISSIONER authority Board of Railway British Columbia British Columbia Electric Canada Canadian Northern Canadian Northern Railway Canadian Pacific Railway cause cents charge company's construction contributory negligence cost coupler crossing damages deceased defendants duty effect engine entitled evidence expropriation facts are fully Fairbanks-Morse feet File Fort William freight fully set grade Grand Trunk Pacific Grand Trunk Railway highway injury judgment jurisdiction jury Lachute lands matter mileage miles Montreal Park Montreal Tramways Company motorman municipality operation opinion pany parties passenger person plaintiff proper provincial railway Quebec question rail Railway Act Railway Commissioners reasonable respondent right-of-way shew shewn shippers siding spur station statute statutory subway switch rods tariff telephone tion toll Toronto track traffic train Tramways Company Trawford trial Judge uncouple Vancouver verdict Winnipeg
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Page 55 - ... no such company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 237 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 225 - ... whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 220 - ... within six months next after the doing or committing of such damage ceases, and not afterwards...
Page 223 - ... and in any such action the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon...
Page 81 - ... got at large through the negligence or wilful act or omission of the owner or his agent...
Page 85 - To take, transport, carry, and convey persons and goods on the railway, to regulate the time and manner in which the same shall be transported, and the tolls and compensation to be paid therefor, and to receive such tolls and compensation...
Page 131 - ... tracks, terminals, stations or station grounds of any other railway company, and have and exercise full right and power to run and operate its trains over and upon any portion or portions of the railway of any other railway company...
Page 261 - The judge has a certain duty to discharge, and the jurors have another and a different duty. The judge has to say whether any facts have been established by evidence from, which negligence may be reasonably inferred ; the jurors have to say whether, from those facts, when submitted to them, negligence ought to be inferred.
Page 205 - Viet. c. 93, which enacts that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would, if death had not ensued...