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1965

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Passenger Carrier's Liability Extended Beyond Its Own Line By Ticket Sale Transaction--Ephraim V. Safeway Trails, Inc., Michigan Law Review Feb 1965

Passenger Carrier's Liability Extended Beyond Its Own Line By Ticket Sale Transaction--Ephraim V. Safeway Trails, Inc., Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a Negro woman, purchased a roundtrip bus ticket in New York City for travel between there and Montgomery, Alabama. The ticket was sold by defendant, an interstate common carrier licensed to do business in New York, and consisted of a strip of coupon tickets, each good for a separate portion of the journey over the lines of defendant and other independent carriers. Printed on the back of each coupon was a clause limiting defendant's liability to its own line.1 Defendant received a ten per cent commission on those connecting tickets it sold for the other lines, and on the …


Icc Conditions Merger Approval Upon Retention Of Jurisdiction To Allow Inclusion Of Additional Railroads In The Future, Michigan Law Review Jan 1965

Icc Conditions Merger Approval Upon Retention Of Jurisdiction To Allow Inclusion Of Additional Railroads In The Future, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

In two recent merger proceedings under section 5(2) of the Interstate Commerce Act, Seaboard Air Line R.R. - Merger-Atlantic Coast Line R.R. and Norfolk & W. Ry. and New York, C. & St. L. R.R.-Merger, the Interstate Commerce Commission imposed conditions" whereby it retained jurisdiction over the proceedings for five years to allow specified railroads to petition for inclusion in the new railway systems. Their inclusion would be ordered if found by the Commission, after a full hearing, to be consistent with the public interest.