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Does The "Bone-Dry" Law Prohibit The Interstate Transportation Of Intoxicants By The Owner For Personal Use?, Thomas Porter Hardman Apr 1918

Does The "Bone-Dry" Law Prohibit The Interstate Transportation Of Intoxicants By The Owner For Personal Use?, Thomas Porter Hardman

West Virginia Law Review

It has been recently held by the Federal courts, sitting in West. Virginia Districts, that interstate transportation of intoxicants by the owner for personal use is not interstate commerce, and, therefore, not prohibited by the so-called "Bone-Dry" Law. But inasmuch as there are at least two prior decisions squarely contra, and apparently none in accord, it would seem proper, in view of the far-reaching effect of these recent decisions, to examine the soundness of their conclusions.


Public Utilities--Reasonableness Of Railroad Regulation Giving Box Cars To :Team Track Loaders" And Open-Top Cars To Tipple Loaders Apr 1918

Public Utilities--Reasonableness Of Railroad Regulation Giving Box Cars To :Team Track Loaders" And Open-Top Cars To Tipple Loaders

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Combination Not Competition Of Railroads, Blewett Lee Jan 1918

Combination Not Competition Of Railroads, Blewett Lee

Michigan Law Review

In the course of the taking of evidence before what is generally called the Newlands Committee, appointed by Congress to investigate conditions relating to interstate and foreign commerce, it was very interesting to observe the personality of the different members of the Committee, as indicated by the questions which they asked of the various expert witnesses who were brought before them. The keen intellect of the Senior Senator from Iowa has continually played about the problem, how the revenues of the weak lines can be increased without at the same time increasing those of the strong ones. Assuming that some …


Parent And Child--Parent's Liability For Child's Negligence In Operating Automobile Jan 1918

Parent And Child--Parent's Liability For Child's Negligence In Operating Automobile

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Joy Riding, Simple And Compound, Edgar N. Durfee Jan 1918

Joy Riding, Simple And Compound, Edgar N. Durfee

Articles

The wrongful use of another's automobile, even though accompanied by a trespassory taking, cannot, if followed by a return to the owner or an abandonment, be easily brought within the definition of larceny at common law or under the ordinary larceny statutes, because of the requirement of intent to deprive the owner permanently of his property. Smith v. State, 146 S. W. 547; State v. Boggs (Iowa, 1917), 164 N. W. 759; McClain, Criminal Law, § 566. Of course, such intent, at the time of taking, might be found in spite of return or abandonment, though it is doubtful whether …