DIGEST OF DECISIONS

UNDER THE

INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT

NUMBER FOUR

BY

HERBERT C. LUST

OF THE

CHICAGO BAR

Author: Supplemental and Quarterly Digests of Decisions Under
the Interstate Commerce Act; The Workmen's Compen-
sation Law of Illinois, Annotated; The

Law of Loss and Damage
Claims, Etc.

To Hon. Henry Wade Rogers, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, New York, who while Dean of Yale Law School bore long and patiently with the author, this volume is affectionately inscribed.

PREFACE

In this volume has been digested in full all decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and of the various United States and state courts, construing the Interstate Commerce Act, reported since the publication of the preceding Supplemental Digest. This takes in all the decisions from about volume 43 I. C. C. to 50 I. C. C. 500. The period covered is approximately from March 1, 1917 to August 1, 1919.

This book is arranged alphabetically, similar to the preceding Digests, by such subjects as are the ordinarily accepted divisions into which the principles governing interstate traffic naturally classify themselves. This can best be seen by referring to the Table of Contents, which immediately follows, and is a reprint of the entire classification. It is earnestly recommended that readers study the classification printed in the front of the book. By seeing the entire classification together, it is easier to become familiar with it, and it will be found a simple way of finding the decisions

desired.

The classification, section numbers, and topics in this Supplement; with the exception of the new subjects added, are exactly the same as in the original and preceding Digests, so that when the reader finds decisions of interest in any volume, he can turn to the same subject and section number in this book, and obtain all subsequent distinctions and variations on that principle.

Owing to the rapid development of traffic law, some new subjects have been added, which were not in the preceding Digests, because at the time of their publication, such divisions of the law had not yet been developed. Others will be found greatly amplified since the publication of the preceding volumes.

It is again earnestly suggested that readers of this book study the Table of Contents very carefully. As about eight thousand points of traffic law are classified, it can readily be understood that familiarity with the classification is necessary to make the book of the quickest available use. It has been attempted to evolve a logical and careful