 Such partiality is legitimate in private business, but how can it square with the obligations of a public employment? A person having a public duty to discharge, is undoubtedly bound to exercise such office for the equal benefit of all, and therefore...  Annual Report - Page 28by California Public Utilities Commission - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1886 - 548 pages
...of all, aud therefore to permit a common carrier to charge various prices, according to the persou with whom he deals, for the same services, is to forget that he owes a duty to the community." On affirmance of this case the Court of Errors was equally emphatic iu affirming the doctrine that... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 840 pages
...to exercise such office for the equal benefit of all, and, therefore, to permit the common carrier to charge various prices, according to the person...same points, he violates, as plainly, though it may be not in the same degree, the principle of public policy which, in his own dispute, converts his business... | |
 | United States. Congress - Interstate commerce - 1884 - 634 pages
...to exercise euch office for the equal benefit of all, and, therefore, to permit the common carrier to charge various prices, according to the person with whom he deals, for the sume services, is to forget that he owes a duty to the community." The very groundwork of the Munn... | |
 | California. Legislature - California - 1885 - 905 pages
...different persons for an identical kind of service, under identical conditions; " * * * or "diiferent rates for the carriage of goods of the same kind, between the same points." In Brown vs. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Co., 6 English and American Railway... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 948 pages
...bound to exercise such office for the equal benefit of all, and therefore to permit a common carrier to charge various prices, according to the person...is to forget that he owes a duty to the community." On affirmance of this case the court of errors was equally emphatic in affirming the doctrine that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1046 pages
...bound to exercise such office for the equal benefit of all, and therefore to permit a common carrier to charge various prices, according to the person...is to forget that he owes a duty to the community. On affirmance of this case the court of errors was equally emphatic in affirming the doctrine that... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 800 pages
...to exercise such office for the equal benefit of all; and, therefore, to permit the common carrier to charge various prices, according to the person...whom he deals, for the same services, is to forget Scofield v. Railway Company. that he owes a duty to the community. . . . The law that forbids him to... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1886 - 968 pages
...to exercise such office for the equal benefit of all, and, therefore, to permit the common carrier to charge various prices, according to the person with whom he deals, for the same service, is to forget that he owes a duty to the community. If he exacts different rates for the carriage... | |
 | Philip Taylor Van Zile - Bailments - 1902 - 856 pages
...bound to exercise such office for the equal benefit of all, and, therefore, to permit a common carrier to charge various prices according to the person with...the same services, is to forget that he owes a duty in the community." * Public policy would not permit the great franchises that are granted to and operated... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale, Bruce Wyman - Interstate commerce - 1906 - 1402 pages
...bound to exercise such office for the equal benefit of all, and therefore to permit the common carrier to charge various prices, according to the person...same points, he violates, as plainly, though it may be not in the same degree, the principle of public policy which, in his own. despite, converts his... | |
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