The Federal Reporter. Volume 4: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. October-December, 1880. Page: 485
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SOUTHERN EXPRESS 00. V. L. & 1. a. 00.
these rates and privileges for several months by the defendant'
after it took control of the lines was, at least, so far an adop-
tion of the terms as to demand some notice in advance to
plaintiff of the contemplated change, especially when the rail*
road was the competitor of the plaintiff in the operations
affected by the change.
The general manager of the defendant says: "Under pres.
ent existing circumstances I would even say that the railroads
and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company are able to
do the express business better than any express company pos-
sibly could. This is due to the consolidation of railways into
great through lines. For example, the through route between
New York and New Orleans via the Mobile & Montgomery
Railway is operated by two companies only, * * whilst
on the same through route small express companies are in
existence. It would, therefore, only be necessary to have one
interchange, if both railroads work their own express. Fur-
ther, the railroad companies can, through their employes, to-
wit, agents at different stations, train men, baggage masters,
etc., do the express business at lower rates and with much
more satisfaction to the public than any express company
could, as in many cases the railroad companies have not to
employ several employes to do the express business. When'
the express companies were first established they were a mat-
ter of convenience, caused by the many railway companies of
short distances between important points, where innumerable
interchanges of business would have to be made, and it would
have been inconvenient to manage this business by each com-
pany separately on its own line. It was then that, in con-
junction with the railways, the express lines and fast through
freight lines were permitted to come on railways under spe-
cial, and in most cases exclusive contracts, giving them all
possible inducements to establish through routes for fast
freight or express business between grand commercial centers,
thereby fostering interstate commerce. These express com.
panics have, under the existing exclusive contracts with the
railway companies, been enabled to establish, not only a
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Boyle, Peyton. The Federal Reporter. Volume 4: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. October-December, 1880., legislative document, 1881; Saint Paul, Minnesota. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc36333/m1/499/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.