Settlement of Freight Claims: Hearing...on S. 674...May 19, 1916 |
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90 days act to regulate adjust claims immediately allowed ALSTON amendment amount attorney's fees attorneys average claim bill of lading CALKINS cent CHAIRMAN claim agents claim department claimant claims presented classification committee common carrier companies to adjust Congress consignee corporations court costs delay Ellis express companies FAULKNER fourteenth amendment Freight Claim Association impose a penalty improperly adjusted information and documents insert Interstate Commerce Commission investigation KELLETT KERFOOT legislation liability litigation loss and damage loss or damage matter ment Milwaukee & St month notice number of claims paid paying claims payment penalized period person plaintiff practice for railroad prescribed prompt settlement promptly question railroad companies Railway regulate commerce Senator BRANDEGEE Senator CLAPP Senator LIPPITT Senator POINDEXTER Senator POMERENE settle settlement of claims shipment shippers may give Southern Express Southern Express Co STANLEY statement STEVENS suggest Supreme Court thereof tion transportation York Central Railroad
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Halaman 9 - ... hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction within the district in which such offense was committed, be subject for each offense to a fine of not exceeding five thousand dollars or imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Halaman 12 - Any person and any officer or agent of any corporation or company wh'o shall deliver property for transportation to any common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act, or for whom as consignor or consignee any such carrier shall transport property, who shall knowingly and...
Halaman 12 - ... to obtain transportation for property at less than the regular rates then established and in force on the line of transportation of such common carrier, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any Court of the United States of competent jurisdiction within the district in...
Halaman 4 - UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 o'clock am, pursuant to adjournment on yesterday, in room 212, Senate Office Building, Senator James E.
Halaman 12 - ... refund or remit in any manner or by any device any portion of the rates, fares, and charges so specified, nor extend to any shipper or person any privileges or facilities in the transportation of passengers or property, except such as are specified in such tariffs: Provided, That wherever the word 'carrier' occurs in this Act it shall be held to mean 'common carrier.
Halaman 9 - 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, who, alone or with any other corporation, company, person, or party, shall...
Halaman 30 - ... a greater or less compensation for any service rendered in the transportation of passengers or property than it charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person for doing for him a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic, it shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination.
Halaman 45 - They must pay attorney's fees If wrong. They do not recover any if right; while their adversaries recover if right, and pay nothing If wrong. In the suits, therefore, to which they are parties, they are discriminated against, and are not treated as others. They do not stand equal before the law. They do not receive its equal protection. All this Is -obvious from a mere inspection of the statute.
Halaman 30 - The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle of republicanism. Every republican government is in duty bound to protect all its citizens in the enjoyment of this principle, if within its power.
Halaman 9 - Any person, corporation, or company, or any agent or officer thereof, who shall deliver property for transportation to any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act, or for whom, as consignor or consignee, any such carrier shall transport property, who shall knowingly and willfully...