[References are to sections] CLASSIFICATION-Continued shipment in more convenient form, 520. less than usual care required, 522. value of the goods, 526. bases of comparing values of goods, 528. CLAYTON ACT, See HISTORY OF STATUTORY REGULATIONS. CLEANING IN TRANSIT, See TRANSIT PRIVILEGES. COMBINATIONS OF CARRIERS, complications in case of systems, 370. (2) consolidating company, 370. (3) traffic agreement, 370. (4) complete consolidation, 370. divisions as integral parts of the whole system, 371. unprofitable portions of the line not considered, 372. systems considered as wholes, 373. treatment of branch lines, 374. constituent roads operated under separate charters, 375. if rental becomes unjustifiable, 377. [References are to sections] COMMON CARRIERS-Continued 1. Common carriage. the history of the carrier, 5. common carrier of goods, 5. railroad companies are common carriers, 162. common carriers as such, 85. carriers subject to the Act, 184. term "common carrier" defined, 160. public profession of common carrier, 187. duty to provide transportation, 931. 2. Public profession. public railroads, 191. private railroads, 191. joint rates, 193. tap lines, 194. plant facilities, 195. line haul, 196. intermingled service, 197. See INTERSTATE CARRIERS, PUBLIC DUTY. COMMUTATION FARES, COMPETITION, See PASSENGER Carriage. 1. Competition no excuse for personal discrimination. concessions to get shipments, 675. additional services performed for certain shippers, 678. competition not a ground for raising rates, 458. absence of competition does not justify increase, 459. [References are to sections] COMPETITION-Continued 3. Competition affecting rate structure. actual or potential competition, 793. 4. Competition as a justification. competition as a factor in rate making, 793. suppression of competition by agreement, 800. suppression of competition by consolidation, 801. carriers may refuse to make competitive rates, 802. COMPLAINTS, provisions of the Act, 1070. must investigate any complaint forwarded, 1070. informal complaint, 1083. commission should exhaust its activities, 1074. individual rate during general inquiry, 1076. statement of the wrong, 1077. different complaints should not be combined, 1077. damages with sufficient definiteness, 1077. sufficiency of the complaint, 1078. there are no technicalities, 1078. sufficient if the complaint states issue, 1078. amendment to complaint, 1080. improper complaints cannot be cured, 1080. amendment in effect making a new case, 1080. complainant not coming with clean hands, 1084. scope of the doctrine, 1085. See PROCEDURE, INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. COMPRESSING IN TRANSIT, See TRANSIT PRIVILEGES. CONNECTING CARRIAGE, through service may be undertaken, 862. fixing the blame for misrouting, 869. carriers not compelled to bill through, 870. discrimination forbidden where public duty involved, 871. 2. Facilities for interchanging business. physical connections at common law, 882. extent of these requirements, 884. demand for connecting service, 885. compulsory interchange of business, 886. contracts with grain elevators, 922. provision of cars in through service, 937. See JOINT RATES. CONSOLIDATION OF CORPORATIONS, See COMBINATIONS, POOLING. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 1. Protection from confiscation. establishment of the power to restrict charges, 302. reasonable return must be left, 305. general policy for allowing a fair return, 320. reductions ruinous only to certain companies, 327. power to set aside a statutory rate, 273. what statutory rate takes property, 273. jurisdiction of the Commission, 308. reasonable profit upon each transaction, 307. constitutional limitations upon commission regulation, 236. [References are to sections] CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-Continued reasonable rates not necessarily profitable, 237. the out of pocket cost in, 238. possibility of increase of business, 239. fair profit on his capital, 220. tests of the reasonableness of a schedule, 221. 2. Right to reasonable charges. general principles governing reasonableness, 211. bearing of tariff as a whole, 230. the entire schedule of rates, 230. rule of proportionality in sharing costs, 231. relation of a particular rate to a whole schedule, 223. reasonable share of the burden, 224. company cannot make unreasonable rates, 225. company cannot justify exorbitant profits, 226. special circumstances affecting the particular rate, 227. fair share of the whole amount, 228. gross income from the schedule, 229. average cost always modified, 232. See RATE REGULATION INTERSTATE COMMERCE. COST AS BASIS OF RATES, cost of service the basic test, 385. respect paid to the cost basis, 384. costs considered in determining comparative reasonableness, 386. the law of increasing returns, 387. length of haul as a factor, 388. proper proportion of total costs, 392. average rate per unit of service, 397. special conditions affecting cost, 404. |