...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...

...falsity of the matter in issue between the parties to a suit." 1 Bouvier Law Die. Rawle's Revision, 866. The inquiry of a board of the character of the Interstate...correspondence is required between allegation and proof. . . It is contended in the answers filed in the Circuit Court that to require the production of these...

...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...

...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...correspondence is required between allegation and proof. . . . "To unreasonably hamper the Commission by narrowing its field of inquiry beyond the requirements...

...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...correspondence is required between allegation and proof." SfatÎHÎicis. — The Commission is authorized by Section 20 to require annual reports from all common...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...correspondence is required between allegation and proof. — Interstate Commerce Commission v. Baird, (1904) 194 US 25, 44, 24 Sup. Ct. R, 563, 48 L. Ed. 860....

...character of the information which may be sought for i> disclosed in the following words of the court: The inquiry of a board of the character of the Interstate...narrowly constrained by technical rules as to the Hrtmissibility of proof. Its function is largely one of investigation, and -it should not be hampered...