Edgar, David Stewart, Sr.

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St. John's University School of Law

St. John's Law Review Volume 4 Number 1 Volume 4, December 1929, Number 1 Article 37 June 2014 Cases on the Law of Carriers (Book Review) David Stewart Edgar Sr. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/lawreview Recommended Citation Edgar, David Stewart Sr. (1929) "Cases on the Law of Carriers (Book Review)," St. John's Law Review: Vol. 4 : No. 1 , Article 37. Available at: https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/lawreview/vol4/iss1/37 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at St. John's Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in St. John's Law Review by an authorized editor of St. John's Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact selbyc@stjohns.edu. BOOK REVIEWSCASES Ox THE LAW OF CARRIERs. By Ralph Stanley Bauer and Edgar Watkins.New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1928, pp. 1140.This book deals exclusively with the subject of common carriers of goodsand passengers. The emphasis is decidedly upon the law of interstate carriers,and the authority with which the volume speaks is not lessened by the factthat one of its compilers and authors, Mr. Watkins, was formerly an examinerfor the Interstate Commerce Commission, and is the author of "Watkins onShippers and Carriers," while its other compiler and co-author, ProfessorBauer, is professor of law in DePaul University.There are approximately 45 reported cases of the United States SupremeCourt and other federal courts; 12 English cases, approximately 25 fromMassachusetts, 15 from New York, 14 from Illinois, 12 from Iowa, besides3 or 4 decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The compilers havedrawn their material from the courts of about 35 states of the Union, besidesEngland and our own federal courts, including the federal statutes embracingthe subject of interstate carriers. There are numerous citations of other casescontained in the footnotes, and in the cases reported. The footnotes arevoluminous and valuable.Your reviewer is in hearty accord with the statement in the preface thatthe editors "have endeavored to present such cases as give the student anaccurate idea of the original common law, the common law as modified bystatutes, and the effect of the most important statutes governing the subject."The authors have admirably succeeded in this respect.Your reviewer also believes that "the student can more readily do efficientwork" in such a subject "by having statutory matter at hand on the pagesbeing studied from day to day," and favors the arrangement which placesportions of the federal statutes "in the midst of the matter for regular classstudy." The convenience of the student has been served by printing, in theappendix, the Federal Bills of Lading Act, the Uniform Bills of Lading Act,and a large portion of the Interstate Commerce Act.The arrangement of the cases topically throughout the book adds to itsvalue. A short headnote to each case would have given a key to the heart ofthe decision-a real aid to the student.The volume serves its purpose best as a lawyer's book. The time allottedto the subject of carriers in most, if not in all, law schools, would not permita study of the entire contents of this volume by the law student, although theassignment by the instructor of selected parts of the book would enable thestudent to share the broad vision of its authors. Your reviewer made likecomment a short time ago on another work of a somewhat similar characteras the book now under review.Your reviewer, although realizing that it perhaps would have been outsideof the scheme of the authors, cannot but regret that the subject of intrastatecommerce within the state of New York was not more fully treated andother New York cases added.This excellent work is welcomed to the literature of the important andever-expanding subject of common carriers.DAvm STEWART EDGAR, SR.St. John's College School of Law.

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