Bills of Lading: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, on the Bill H.R.25335. June 16, 20, and 21, 1910Governmentprint. Office, 1910 - 74 pages |
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accommodation bills agreed amendments authority bill of exchange bill of lading BUCKLAND carrier cent CHAIRMAN commission COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE Congress draft export bills fact foreign bill forged bills forgery frauds freight gentlemen give grain guarantee holder House indorsed interested interstate commerce Interstate Commerce Commission issue a bill KENT Knight lading issued law merchant legislation liability load and count MANDELBAUM Marshall Field matter merchants negotiable negotiable instruments NEVILLE NORTHROP notify consignee order bill order of shipper passed PATON PERKINS present Professor WILLISTON question railroad agent railroad company receipt received representing responsible RING Santa Fe Railroad SCHAEFFER Senator CULLOM Senator CUMMINS Senator FAULKNER Senator HUGHES shipment shipped shipper's load sign bills signature statement station agent statute Stevens bill straight bill Supreme Court thing tion transactions transportation understand United WALKER words York bankers York banks
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Page 54 - Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration, representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel, shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same, notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped...
Page 62 - ... that packages are said to contain goods of a certain kind or quantity or in a certain condition, or that the contents or condition of the contents of packages are unknown, or words of like purport are contained in the bill, such statements, if true, shall not make liable the.
Page 62 - ... although the goods are not of the kind or quantity or in the condition which the marks or labels upon them indicate, or of the kind or quantity or in the condition they were said to be by the consignor. The carrier may, also by inserting in the bill the words "shipper's load and count...
Page 4 - ... issue a second or duplicate order bill of lading or straight bill of lading for the same property, in whole or in part, for which a former bill of lading has been issued and remains outstanding and uncanceled. without prominently marking across the face of the same the word
Page 4 - Any alteration, addition or erasure in a bill after its issue without authority from the carrier issuing the same, either in writing or noted on the bill, shall be void, whatever be the nature and purpose of the change, and the bill shall be enforceable according to its original tenor.
Page 4 - Shipper's weight, load, and count," or other words of like purport indicate that the goods were loaded by the shipper and the description of them made by him ; and if such statement be true, the carrier shall not be liable for damages caused by the improper loading or by the nonreceipt or by the misdescription of the goods described in the bill of lading.
Page 56 - As shown in the opinion from which we have just quoted, many things have more or less close relation to interstate commerce which are not properly to be regarded as a part of it. If the cab which carries the passengers from the hotel to the ferry landing is engaged in interstate transportation, why is not the porter who carries the traveler's trunk from his room to the carriage also so engaged? If the cab service is interstate transportation, are the drivers of the cabs and the dealers who supply...
Page 4 - Who has given value in good faith relying upon the description therein of the goods, for damages caused by the nonreceipt by the carrier or a connecting carrier of all or part of the goods or their failure to correspond with the description thereof in the bill at the time of its issue.
Page 3 - A negotiable bill shall have the words "order of" printed thereon immediately before the name of the person upon whose order the goods received are deliverable. A carrier shall be liable to any person injured thereby for the damage caused by the omission from a negotiable bill of any of the provisions required in this section.
Page 3 - ... within this State, or between places one of which is within this State, in which the property described therein is stated to be consigned or deliverable to a specified person, without any statement or representation that such property is consigned or deliverable to the order of any person, such bill shall be known as a "straight bill of lading" and shall contain Requirements.