Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to ...
Author: James W. Ely, Jr.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 9780700611447
Category: Law
Page: 376
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No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.
railroads . In New Hampshire , it is held that the indictment must be against the corporation , and not against the individual stockholders , and must ... If such a law would be expedient for us , it is for the legislature to make it .
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These books provide a unique view of the impact of this type of transportation on our urban and rural societies and cultures, while allowing the reader to share the experience of early railroading in a new and unique way.
Author: Edward L. Pierce
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 1017563756
Category: History
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The Shelf2Life Trains & Railroads Collection provides a unique opportunity for researchers and railroad enthusiasts to easily access and explore pre-1923 titles focusing on the history, culture and experience of railroading. From the revolution of the steam engine to the thrill of early travel by rail, railroads opened up new opportunities for commerce, American westward expansion and travel. These books provide a unique view of the impact of this type of transportation on our urban and rural societies and cultures, while allowing the reader to share the experience of early railroading in a new and unique way. The Trains & Railroads Collection offers a valuable perspective on this important and fascinating aspect of modern industrialization.
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Logansport and Chicago Railroad Company , as per cent . , on the duties which may be remitted President ; Mortimer M. Benton ... American Rail - passage of the law repealing such duties , provided comotive Power and Steep Grades .
Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies ...
Author: Barbara Young Welke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521649668
Category: History
Page: 436
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Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the twentieth century. The three-part narrative, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit, captures Americans' journey from a cultural and legal ethos celebrating manly independence and autonomy to one that recognized and sought to protect the individual against the dangers of modern life. Gender and race become central to the transformation charted here, as much as the forces of corporate power, modern technology and urban space.
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Publisher: New York : American Railroad Manual Company
A complete collection of all the railroad law as decided by the American , English and Canadian courts of last resort . Elaborate notes to the more important cases . As a means of giv . ing the working lawyer a full collection of all ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Author: Edward Lillie Pierce
Publisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 1345361041
Category:
Page: 626
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39 [ 58 U. S. , bk . 15 , L. ed . 27 ] . | Pierce on American Railroad Law , 244 , lays down the rule : " The company cannot divest itself of responsibility for the torts of persons operating its road , by transferring its corporate ...
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Railway Disbursements and the Accounts into which they are naturally divided . N. Y. , 1877. ... Railway Bonds and Mortgages in the U. S. 1897 . Bost . , Rape . ... American Railroad Law , including Street Railroads . Bost . , 1904 .
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Robert Irwin , Freight Claim Agent , Atchison , Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Coast Lines . ... J. H. Howard , Manager , Claims & Property Protection Section , Division of Law , U. S. Railroad Administration . H. C. Howe , Freight Claim ...
AMERICAN railway cases . 2 v . Boston , 1856 . AMERICAN railway reports . 19 v . New York , 1873-80 . , ENGLISH railway cases . 6 v . Boston , 1854 . GILBERT . Illinois railway law . Chicago , 1873 . HASSLER . On powers of railroad ...
2 vols . , 12mo . , 14s . b AMERICAN LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT : embracing the Statutory Provisions and Judicial ... C RAILROAD LAWS AND CHARTERS , now for the first time collated and arranged in Chronological Order for Publication .