Restrictive Railway Legislation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Restrictive Railway Legislation This work contains the substance of a course of twelve lectures delivered in April and May, 1905, at the Boston University School of Law, the purpose being to present the manner in which legislation and judicial decisions have affected the operations of railway corporations in their relations to the public. References to publications on these subjects have been principally to the following: "Railroad Origin and Problems," Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 1878; "Railroad Transportation," President A. T. Hadley, 1885; "American Railway Transportation," Professor E. R. Johnson, 1903; "Railway Legislation in the United States," Professor B. H. Meyer, 1903; "Legal Nature of Corporations," Professor E. Freund, 1897; "Congressional Land Grants," Professor J. B. Sanborn, 1899; "Great American Canals," Archer Butler Hulbert, 1904; and the Reports of the United States Industrial Commission and of the Interstate Commerce Commission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.