The Federal Railway Digest, Volume 2Federal Law Book Company, 1918 - Interstate commerce |
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Act for injuries action based affreightment assumed risk Atchison Baltimore & Ohio bility Act bill of lading brakeman brakes Carmack Amendment carrier's liability cause of action certiorari denied 245 charges Chesapeake & Ohio claim connecting carrier contributory negligence damages death decedent decisions defective defendant demurrage Digest dismissed 242 U. S. duty engaged in interstate engine eral Employers error dismissed 242 evidence failure Federal court Federal Employ Federal Employers infra initial carrier injuries sustained instruction inter Interstate Commerce Commission interstate shipment intrastate jury Liability Act live stock loss Louis Louisville & Nashville ment merce Milwaukee & St N. Y. Supp opinion 242 U. S. Pacific plaintiff ployers railway company recovery repair rier Safety Appliance Act Santa Fe section Federal section Federal Ry shipper statute tariff terstate tion track train transportation United verdict violation writ of error written notice
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Page 193 - An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes...
Page 191 - An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes...
Page 195 - Nothing in subsection (c) or (d) shall be construed to amend, repeal, impair, or affect existing laws or powers of the States In relation to taxation or the lawful police regulations of the several States, except wherein such laws, powers, or regulations may affect the transmission of Government communications, or the issue of stocks and bonds by any communication system or systems.
Page 192 - In case of disobedience to a subpoena the board may invoke the aid of any district court of the United States in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence, and such court within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on may, in case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any...
Page 194 - SEC. 10. That any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act, or, whenever such common carrier is a corporation, any director or officer thereof, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent, or person acting for or employed by such corporation...
Page 193 - That carriers while under federal control shall be subject to all laws and liabilities as common carriers, whether arising under State or federal laws or at common law, except in so far as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or any other Act applicable to such federal control or with any order of the President. Actions at law or suits in equity may be brought by and against such carriers and judgments rendered as now provided by law ; and in any action at law or suit in equity against...
Page 190 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 94 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.
Page 194 - An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety; sections seventy-three to seventy-seven, inclusive, of an Act entitled "An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes...
Page 154 - ... the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...