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Constitutional Law -Validity Of Registration Provisions Of Public Utility Holding Company Act Of 1935, Gerald L. Stoetzer
Constitutional Law -Validity Of Registration Provisions Of Public Utility Holding Company Act Of 1935, Gerald L. Stoetzer
Michigan Law Review
In recognition of the abuses that arise from the monopolistic tendencies of holding companies in the public utility field and of the inability of the respective states to exert the necessary control thereof, Congress has attempted to draw certain of the public utility holding companies within the inquisitorial and regulatory control of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, reciting in great detail facts showing the necessity for control of holding companies having as subsidiaries electric and gas operating utilities, indicates that Congress regarded the uncontrolled utility holding company as "an agency which, …
Carriers - Federal Regulation Of Motor Transportation Brokers, Charles E. Nadeau
Carriers - Federal Regulation Of Motor Transportation Brokers, Charles E. Nadeau
Michigan Law Review
A broker is, in general, an intermediary or "go-between" in the business of negotiating contracts for others. His economic function is that of bringing buyer and seller together. A motor transportation broker is engaged in the business of arranging for contracts dealing with motor transportation service. His function is to bring together a prospective passenger or shipper seeking service and a carrier willing to provide the service demanded. "Tourist agency," "travel bureau," and "share-the-expense agency" are familiar terms used to designate the passenger transportation broker. There is a larger, but not so wellknown, group of brokers dealing in the hauling …
Carriers Distinction Between Common Carriers And Contract Carriers, Marcus L. Plant
Carriers Distinction Between Common Carriers And Contract Carriers, Marcus L. Plant
Michigan Law Review
In the recent case of Ace-High Dresses, Inc. v. J.C. Trucking Co., the defendant was a corporation organized for the purpose of doing a general trucking business. At the time of the suit it was operating under separate contracts with five dressmaking establishments, one of which was the plaintiff. Under these contracts the defendant trucked dress goods every day except Sunday. The goods were taken on in New York, carried to New Haven, Hartford or Bridgeport, left there until processed, and then taken back to New York. The defendant's drivers had keys to the factories of the processors, entered …