Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

No. 81 cHa 81 RnD nAWs o 81 1913 IL 1913
AN ACT-To create sections 1880, 1885
and 1816e of the statutes, limiting liza
bility by common carriers.
The people OF the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section l. There are added to the stat
utes three new sections to read: Section
1850. Every common carrier, railroad,
or transportation company RECEIVING
property for transportation from one
point in this state to another point in
this state shall issue a receipt or bill OF
lading therefor and shall be liable to the
lawful holder thereof for any loss, dam
age or injury to such property caused
by it or by any common carrier, rail-
road, or transportation company to
which such property may pass, ana nc
contract, receipt, rule, or regulation shall
exempt such common carrier, railroad, OF
transportation company from the la
bility hereby imposed; provided, that
nothing in this section shall deprive any
holder of such receipt or bill of lading
of any remedy or right of action which
he has under existing law.
Every common carrier, railroad or
transportation company issuing such re-
ceipt or bill Of lading shall be entitled to
recover from the common carrier rail-
road or transportation company on
whose line, in this state, the loss, dam
age or injury shall have been sustained,
the amount of such loss, damage. or in
jury as it may be required to pay to the
owners of such property, as may be evil
denced by any receipt judgment, OF
transcript thereof.
Section 1850. On proof being made by
the owner of the property shipped, that
the same has been destroyed or damaged
in transit, between the said place OF
shipment, in this state, and the place OF
destination, in this state, the liability Of
a common carer shall attach to all the
defendants and judgment shall be en-
tered accordingly against them all un-
less one or more Of the defendants shall
prove that it was not, or they were not
liable, in which case judgment shall &c
only against the remaining defendant OF
defendants
Section 1859. No contract, receipt
rule, or regulation shall exempt any cor
poration or person engaged in trans
porting persons for hire, within this
state, from the liability Of a common
carrier, or carrier of passengers. which
would exist had no contract, receipt
Section 2 This act shall take effect
upon passage and publication.
Approved May rs, 1913. Copy Law
-'0' G CHiAPPTER 527, LAWS or OF 1918.
AN ACT-TO create section 4560a-51 o.
the statutes. relating to closed season
The people of the State of Wisconsin
represented in Senate and Assembly
do enact as follows:
Section l. There is added to The
statutes a new section to read Sector
4560a-51. There shall be no closed sea
son except from the first day of March t.
the succeeding twentieth day of May fol
any fish except trout in Rush lake or il
the streams flowing into raid lake, sit
uated in Fond du Lac and Winnebag(
counties, and fish therein may be ta4<er
in any manner except with dynamite
during the open season, except trout; pro
vided, that no person shall have more
thar one hundred pounds of fish eXcep
said streams flowing into said lake, ii
his possession or under his control il
any one day.
Section 2 This act shall take effec
upon passage and publication.
Approved May &C. 1913. Copy Law