...property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass, and no contract, receipt, rule, or regulation shall exempt such common carrier,...transportation company from the liability hereby imposed." Act Feb. 4, 1887, c. 104, § 20, 24 Stat. 386 (US Сотр. St. 1901, p. 31C9) as amend«! by Act June...

...property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass, and no contract, receipt, rule, or regulation shall exempt such common carrier,...transportation company from the liability hereby imposed." The question then arises, under the conflicting claims of the parties, whether, in the circumstances...

...delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass, • * • and no contract, receipt, rule, regulation * * » shall exempt such common carrier,...transportation company from the liability hereby imposed. * * * " [1] We think, In view of section б of the conditions of the bill of lading, there can be no...

...property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass, and no contract, receipt, rule, or regulation shall exempt such common carrier, railroad, or transportation company from tho liability hereby imposed: Provided, that nothing in this section shall deprive any holder of such...

...property may be delivered, or over whose line or lines such property may pass, and no contract, receipt, rule or regulation shall exempt such common carrier,...shall deprive any holder of such receipt or bill of ladingof any remedy or right of action which he has under existing law." This language is clear and...

...exempt tnch common carrier, railroad, or transportation company from the liability hereby 1ml«sed : Provided, That nothing in this section shall deprive...right of action which he has under existing law." Baggage is property within the terma of the statute; and that the transportation of persons from one...

...company to which such property may be delivered; and affirmatively declares that no contract, receipt, rule, or regulation shall exempt such common carrier,...railroad, or transportation company from the liability imposed. And in addition, as finally amended, provides that "any such common carrier, railroad or transportation...

...lading, and no contract, receipt, rule, regulation, or other limitation of any character whatsoever, shall exempt such common carrier, railroad, or transportation company from the liability hereby imposed; and any such common carrier, railroad, or transportation company so receiving property for transportation...

...7, 34 Stat. 593 [US Сотр. St. Supp. 1911, p. 1307]). declaring that no contract, receipt, etc., shall exempt such common carrier, railroad, or transportation company from the liability thereby imposed, a receipt of an express company limiting its liability to $50, unless a higher value...

...property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass, and no contract, receipt, rule, or regulation shall exempt such common carrier,...action which he has under existing law. * « * " That being the statute under and upon which the plaintiff sues, the question of the right of removal must...