Book/Printed Material Automatic couplers. Letter from the Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, transmitting a decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in relation to the Act of March 2, 1893, concerning automatic couplers. January 9, 1903. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 57th Congress HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES j Document Session No 254 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION TRANSMITTING A DECISION OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN RELATION…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 2 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS automatically with those of the same description hut not with any other and authorize the hauling of cars in the same train which could not be coupled or uncoupled…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS 3 8 SameAutomatic CouplersAct of March 2 1893Equipment of Car with One Kind of Coupler Sufficient The equipment under the act of March 21893 of a car with automatic couplers…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 4 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS and well aware of the difficulty and danger of his undertaking so that he falls far within the familiar rules that the servant assumes the ordinary risks and dangers…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 AUTOMATIC COUPLEES 5 power driving wheel brake such as this statute prescribes To over come this difficulty counsel for the plaintiff persuasively argues that this is a remedial statute that laws for…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 6 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS 17 C C A 558 565 71 Fed 40 47 U S v Fisher 2 Cranch 858 399 2 L Ed 304 Railway Co v Phelps 137 U S…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS 7 ment of an act which is not denounced by the fair import of its terms The acts which this statute declares to be unlawful and for the com mission…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 8 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS provisions The plain purpose of the act was to prohibit the confine ment of stock while in transit for an unreasonable length of time The confinement of cattle by…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS 9 enactment and imposes a penalty recoverable by the Government Its terms are plain and free from doubt and its meaning is clear It declares that it is unlawful for…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 10 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS coupling automatically by impact and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the car It does not bar the handling and use…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS 11 moving interstate traffic any part of commerce among the States Does the intention of the owner as to a future use of an implement of transportation affect the character…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 12 AUTOMATIC COUPLERS cars used in moving interstate traffic unless equipped as the act directs The intention to use cars for that purpose does not constitute such a use because that intention…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254 O AUTOMATIC COUPLERS 13 hauled or used in interstate traffic The reasoning by which a con trary conclusion is reached seems to me to be altogether too refined and unsatisfactory to be…- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Image 14 of Automatic couplers. Letter from the Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, transmitting a …
Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254- Contributor: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - United States Congress. House - United States. Congress. House - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1903
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Title
- Automatic couplers. Letter from the Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, transmitting a decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in relation to the Act of March 2, 1893, concerning automatic couplers. January 9, 1903. -- Referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed
Other Title
- Cited as: H. Doc. 57-254
Names
- United States Congress. House
- United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
- United States. Congress. House, author
- United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Created / Published
- [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903.
Headings
- - Industrial accidents
- - Industrial safety
- - Interstate commerce
- - Judgments
- - Judicial opinions
- - Railroad accidents
- - Railroad equipment industry
- - Railroads
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- Government publication
- Legislative materials
Medium
- 1 online resource (13 pages).
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- KF12
- 57-2:H.DOC.254
- Y 1.1/2:4518
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- 2024775624
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- United States Congress. House
- United States. Congress. House
- United States. Government Publishing Office
- United States. Interstate Commerce Commission