Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volume 102L.K. Strouse, 1926 - Interstate commerce |
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Page 251 - Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers, or of like kind of property, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance, or to charge any greater compensation as a through rate than the aggregate of the intermediate rates subject to the provisions of this Act...
Page 203 - ... provide reasonable facilities for operating such through routes and to make reasonable rules and regulations with respect to the exchange, interchange, and return of cars used therein, and for the operation of such through routes, and providing for reasonable compensation to those entitled thereto.
Page 29 - ... from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States...
Page 276 - (4) Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 51 - ... hours of free time. In no case shall more than one day's credit be allowed on any one car, and in no case shall more than seven (7) days' credits be applied in cancellation of debits accruing on any one car.
Page 346 - On cars held for loading, time will be computed from the first 7 am after placement on public-de.livery tracks. (b) On cars held for orders, time will be computed from the first 7 am after the day on which notice of arrival is sent to consignee.
Page 554 - ... exemption does not include cars held for or by shippers for loading live stock. Live poultry will not be considered as live stock. 3. Empty cars placed for loading coal at coal mines, coal mine sidings, coal washers, or coke at coke ovens...
Page 114 - Classification (either individually or jointly), including delivery to connecting lines, subject to the following conditions: (a) Should the aggregate empty mileage of any owner's cars on June 30th of each year, or at the close of any such yearly period as may be mutually agreed upon, exceed the aggregate loaded mileage on the lines of such carriers individually (or jointly when mileage accounts are computed jointly) such excess must be paid for by the owner, either by an equivalent loaded mileage...
Page 454 - That the interstate journey might end at Oakley was never more than a possibility. Under these circumstances, the intention as it was carried out determined, as matter of law, the essential nature of the movement ; and hence that the movement through to Madisonville was an interstate shipment. For neither through billing, uninterrupted movement, continuous possession by the cairier, nor unbroken bulk, is an essential of a through interstate shipment.
Page 410 - ... fiction that the incoming and the outgoing transportation services, which are in fact distinct, constitute a continuous shipment of the identical article from point of origin to final destination. The practice has its origin partly in local needs, partly in the competition of carriers for business. The practice is sometimes beneficial in its results; but it is open to grave abuses. To police it adequately is difficult and expensive. Unless adequately policed, it is an avenue to illegal rebates...