Excerpt from Cases on Public Service Companies: Public Carriers, Public Works, and Other Public Utilities As a result of the present state of the law it has seemed essen tial to bring together examples of every sort of public calling. Here will be found decisions concerning coaches and ships, the turnpike and the toll-bridge, the railway and the tram, the inn and the warehouse, the telegraph and the telephone, the purvey ors of light and water. Materials are thus provided for analogy and comparison, and for a careful study of the rights and duties of persons engaged in every sort of public employment. When this preface was first written in 1902 this unity of the public service law had not been generally perceived; now it is a recognized branch of the law, recognized by all as of overshadow ing importance. An impressive instance of this growth in the law is the number of fundamental cases which the last few years have produced that have been added to this new edition. 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.