 | Idaho. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 904 pages
...tried." In Interstate Commerce Com. v. Baird, 194 US 25, 24 Sup. Ct. 563, 48 L. ed. 860, the court said : "The inquiry of a board of the character of the Interstate...largely one of investigation, and it should not be hamIdaho, Vol. 26 — 26 Opinion of the Court — Sullivan, CJ pered in making inquiry pertaining to... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1904 - 454 pages
...its tendency to establish a controverted fact. The court in this connection said that an inquiry by a board of the character of the Interstate Commerce...rules as to the admissibility of proof, its function being largely one of investigation. Similar ruling was made in regard to the Temple Iron Company contracts... | |
 | Frank Hendrick - Antitrust law - 1906 - 604 pages
...in my judgment, were intended to be conferred upon it." Mr. Justice Day, in the Baird case,* said : "The inquiry of a board of the character of the Interstate...making inquiry pertaining to interstate commerce by those narrow rules which prevail in trials at common law, where a strict correspondence is required... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 930 pages
...presents to the Commission, and that as the function of the Commission is "largely one of investigation," "it should not be hampered in making inquiry pertaining to interstate commerce by tlio.sc narrow rules which prevail in trials at Common Law where a strict correspondence is required... | |
 | William Mills Ivins, Herbert Delavan Mason - Interstate commerce - 1908 - 1242 pages
...ante, § 19, note [1]. Practice and procedure on investigations, — see also, post, § 48, notes. The inquiry of a board of the character of the Interstate...one of investigation, and it should not be hampered by those narrow rules which prevail in trials at common law where a strict correspondence is required... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Antitrust law - 1908 - 288 pages
...character of the information which may be sought for is disclosed in the following words of the court : The inquiry of a board of the character of the Interstate...is largely one of investigation and it should not bs hampered in making inquiry pertaining to interstate commerce by those narrow rules which prevail... | |
 | Edward Beauchamp Peirce - Interstate commerce - 1908 - 1232 pages
...Sup. Ct. R. 563, 48 L. Ed. 860. 33. As the function of the Commission is largely one of investigation, it should not be hampered in making inquiry pertaining to interstate commerce by those narrow rules which prevail in trials at common law, where a strict correspondence is required... | |
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The inquiry of a board of the character of the Interstate Commerce Commission should not be too narrowly constrained by technical rules as to the admissibility of proof. Its function is largely one of investigation and it should not be hampered in making... 
