...requiring that a receipt or bill of lading be issued, immediately after that recital provides that "no contract, receipt, rule, or regulation shall exempt...railroad or transportation company from the liability here imposed." This seems to indicate that congress had in mind the contracts, rules and regulations...

...States or within an adjacent foreign country when transported on a through bill of VtlL. whatsoever, shall exempt such common carrier, railroad, or transportation company from the liability hereby imposed ; and any such common carrier, railroad, or transportation company so receiving property for transportation...

...or transportation company to which such property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass, and no contract, receipt, rule,...from the liability hereby imposed: Provided, That e*xiTting''i "wdnot nothing in this section shall deprive any holder of such tarred. receipt or bill...

...writing by the shipper. Such rates shall be published as are other rate sched'ules : Provided further, That nothing in this section shall deprive any holder...of any remedy or right of action which he has under the existing law: Provided further, That it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to provide...

...or transportation company to which such property may be delivered, or over whose line or liues such property may pass, and no contract, receipt, rule...common carrier, railroad or transportation company to which such property may \>e delivered, or over whose line or lines such property may pass, and no...

...or transportation company to which such property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass, and no contract, receipt, rule,...right of action which he has under existing law." The inhibition Imposed by the latter provision of lieve the initial carrier of liability for loss,...

...p. 1307]), to Act Feb. 4, 1887, c. 104, § 20, 24 Stat. 386 (U. S. Сотр. St 1901, p. 31G9), that "no contract, receipt, rule, or regulation shall exempt...transportation company, from the liability hereby imposed." [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Carriers, Cent. Dig. §§ 663-667, 699-703%, 711-714, . 718, 718У2;...

...or over whose line or lines such property may pass, and no contract, receipt, rule, or régulation shall exempt such common carrier, railroad, or transportation company from the liability hereby imposed." Carmack Amendment to Hepburn Act (Act June 29, 19U6, c. 3591, Ü 7. par. 11, 34 Stat. 595 [US Cornn....

...be done in that way, and hence probably for that, as well as other reasons, the proviso was added, "that nothing In this section shall deprive any holder...of lading of any remedy or right of action which he had under existing law." The Carmack Amendment was therefore evidently intended to be cumulative, and...

...railroad, or transportation, company to which property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass; and no contract, receipt, rule,...transportation company from the liability hereby imposed. The liability Imposed by the act Is a liability for a loss by a connecting carrier or carriers to which...