Railroads and American law / James W. Ely, Jr.
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- The emergence of the railroad
- The Civil War and federal land grants
- Regulatory landscape of the nineteenth century
- Arteries of commerce
- Law governing railroad operations
- Railroads and social conflict
- Insolvency, receiverships, and commercial practices
- Property and taxation
- Liability for personal injury
- Railroads in the progressive era
- World War I and the expansion of Federal Regulatory Authority
- Tangled labor relations
- Legal problems of railroad decline.