Carriers' Law: Relating to Goods and Passenger Traffic on Railways, Canals, and Steam Ships, with Cases (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Carriers' Law: Relating to Goods and Passenger Traffic on Railways, Canals, and Steam Ships, With Cases

I am led to consider such a book as this necessary from the diffi culty I have always experienced in obtaining information on Carriers' Law from ordinary law books written by barristers, and other railway officials will probably have experienced a similar difficulty. In such text - books one can seldom find the required information on the particular point that may be at issue. This may arise from barristers writing books technically obscure to the possible litigant who may be able to pay for an opinion, or it may arise from the technicalities of a carrier's business being too obscure for barristers to eliminate from the trials the essential points upon which a carrier requires information. It is likely that both these causes may have contributed to render barristers' books unsuited as legal guides to common carriers. Furthermore, barristers' books are commentaries on legal decisions, whereas a carrier wants the actual case as unfolded at the trial; that is to say, the facts stripped of legal technicalities, with the material part of the Judge's decision added thereto. This is exactly what has been attempted in the following pages. In fact, I have taken the law, as unfolded by the Judges, and classified and fitted it into the railway frame ready for easy reference. In the main I have abstained from being a commentator, preferring rather to collate the words of the Judges and apply them directly to the sections of the business to which they relate.

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