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Northwestern Railway Situation, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Jan 1903

Northwestern Railway Situation, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

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What promises to be the most important corporate litigation that has or is likely to come before the Supreme Court for many years is involved in the various suits against the Northern Securities Company. To understand its full significance, it is desirable to recall something of the railroad history of the western states.

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Liability Of Railroad Companies For Medical Services Rendered To Injured Employees And Others, Harry B. Hutchins Jan 1903

Liability Of Railroad Companies For Medical Services Rendered To Injured Employees And Others, Harry B. Hutchins

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Although it has been held that, by virtue of the relation between them, the employer is bound to furnish medical aid to his sick or injured employee,1 yet, at the present time, according to the general concensus of opinion, this is not the law.

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Northwestern Railway Situation, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Jan 1903

Northwestern Railway Situation, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

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What promises to be the most important corporate litigation that has or is likely to come before the Supreme Court for many years is involved in the various suits against the Northern Securities Company. To understand its full significance, it is desirable to recall something of the railroad history of the western states.

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Street Railways Their Rights To And Liabilities For Use Of Streets, Michael J. Martin Jan 1895

Street Railways Their Rights To And Liabilities For Use Of Streets, Michael J. Martin

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Liability Of Connecting Carriers For Injuries To Passengers And Damage To Freight, Carl Dyer Stephan Jan 1895

Liability Of Connecting Carriers For Injuries To Passengers And Damage To Freight, Carl Dyer Stephan

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Popular And Legal Views Of Traffic Pooling, Thomas M. Cooley Jan 1884

Popular And Legal Views Of Traffic Pooling, Thomas M. Cooley

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“Perhaps nothing in respect to the relations between the railroad companies and the public attracts more attention at the present time than the arrangements to which the name of pooling is popularly given. In railroad circles these arrangements are looked upon as necessary to prevent all railroad property becoming absolutely worthless to the stockholders, as a very large part of it is now; and those managers who are hoping to earn dividends are therefore laboring earnestly to make these arrangements effectual…. What is said will refer especially to pooling in freight traffic, but in principle it will apply to passenger …

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State Regulation Of Corporate Profits, Thomas M. Cooley Dec 1882

State Regulation Of Corporate Profits, Thomas M. Cooley

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At the time when the Federal Constitution was adopted, municipal government in America was a very simple affair, and was managed with ease and economy through local officers, who provided for the making and repairing of roads, looked after disorderly characters, abated local nuisances, and levied rates for the few and simple public needs. When the growing population of a particular locality appeared to need larger powers of local government, the legislature granted them, but they often involved little more than the holding of fairs as a means of building up local trade, the institution of a local court for …

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Report Of Messrs. Thurman, Washburne, & Cooley, Constituting An Advisory Committee On Differential Rates By Railroads Between The West And The Seaboard., Allen G. Thurman, E. B. Washburne, Thomas M. Cooley Dec 1881

Report Of Messrs. Thurman, Washburne, & Cooley, Constituting An Advisory Committee On Differential Rates By Railroads Between The West And The Seaboard., Allen G. Thurman, E. B. Washburne, Thomas M. Cooley

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In January, 1882, the undersigned were notified that they had been selected by the New.York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company, W. H. Vanderbilt, P1·esident; the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company, H. J. Jewett, President; the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, G. B. Roberts, President, and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, John W. Garrett, President, to act as an Advisory Commission upon " the differences in rates that should exist, both eastwardly and westwardly, upon all classes of freights between the several terminal Atlantic ports," and to report upon the same.

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