Excerpt from Interstate Commerce Commission Reports, Vol. 1: Decisions and Proceedings of the Interstate Commerce Commission Under the Interstate Commerce Act of February 4, 1887, Together With All Decisions of the Courts Relating to Interstate Commerce, With Notes; May, 1887, to June, 1888 This central portion of the work has been supplemented by full reports of the decisions of the Federal and State Courts upon the subject of interstate com merce, rendered during the year covered by this volume; and the effort has been made (by including the full text of the Interstate Commerce Act and the material portions of the English Statutes upon which our Act is largely based, together with a note on the American and English decisions upon the questions connected with this legislation) to furnish a comprehensive and convenient hand-book upon the subjects of domestic commerce and transportation, in their relations to the N ation and the State, to the carrier and the shipper, to the producer and the consumer. 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.