Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 244 |
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Page 66
... train carrying interstate commerce , and killed , as a result of couplers coming open while the train was in motion . Held , that , in view of the Safety Appliance Act , negligence might be inferred from the mere opening of the couplers ...
... train carrying interstate commerce , and killed , as a result of couplers coming open while the train was in motion . Held , that , in view of the Safety Appliance Act , negligence might be inferred from the mere opening of the couplers ...
Page 67
... train running from Albert Lea , Minnesota , to Minneapolis and trans- porting interstate commerce merchandise . As the train left Jordan , an intermediate station , Gotschall boarded a car toward the rear end and was proceeding along ...
... train running from Albert Lea , Minnesota , to Minneapolis and trans- porting interstate commerce merchandise . As the train left Jordan , an intermediate station , Gotschall boarded a car toward the rear end and was proceeding along ...
Page 103
... train , the defendant objected when the tria ! opened that no rate for such trains had been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission and , while the trial was in progress , offered an amend- Opinion of the Court . 244 U. S. ment to ...
... train , the defendant objected when the tria ! opened that no rate for such trains had been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission and , while the trial was in progress , offered an amend- Opinion of the Court . 244 U. S. ment to ...
Page 104
... train to carry him from Reno , Nevada , to Doyle , California , where his son was ill , and to bring the two back ... trains had been filed by the defendant and that therefore the contract was illegal . The defendant had mentioned the ...
... train to carry him from Reno , Nevada , to Doyle , California , where his son was ill , and to bring the two back ... trains had been filed by the defendant and that therefore the contract was illegal . The defendant had mentioned the ...
Page 162
... train control , inspection and accident reporting ; but no recommendation or even mention of employers ' liability . ( 2 ) The National Convention of Railroad Commissioners , an association comprising the commissioners of the several ...
... train control , inspection and accident reporting ; but no recommendation or even mention of employers ' liability . ( 2 ) The National Convention of Railroad Commissioners , an association comprising the commissioners of the several ...
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Page 485 - ... attending at any place where any such person or persons may lawfully be, for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or from peacefully persuading any person to work or to abstain from working ; or from ceasing to patronize or to employ any party to such dispute, or from recommending, advising, or persuading others by peaceful and lawful means so to do...
Page 483 - Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint...
Page 607 - Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 221 - I recognize without hesitation that judges do and must legislate, but they can do so only interstitially; they are confined from molar to molecular motions.
Page 366 - The danger to be apprehended must be real and appreciable with reference to the ordinary operation of law in the ordinary course of things ; not a danger of an imaginary and unsubstantial character, having reference to some extraordinary and barely possible contingency, so impossible that no reasonable man would suffer it to influence his conduct.
Page 473 - Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' Ass'n v. United States, 234 US 600, 612.
Page 338 - ... hours he shall be relieved and not required or permitted again to go on duty until he has had at least ten consecutive hours off duty...
Page 343 - That the provisions of this act shall not apply in any case of casualty or unavoidable accident or the act of God; nor where the delay was the result of a cause not known to the carrier or its officer or agent in charge of such employee at the time said employee left a terminal, and which could not have been foreseen: Provided further, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the crews of wrecking or relief trains.
Page 510 - All property not exempted from taxation by this Constitution shall be assessed for taxation at its fair cash value, estimated at the price it would bring at a fair voluntary sale...
Page 293 - It is never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures.