[982] Yazoo & M.V.R. Co. v. Greenwood Grocery Co., 227 U.S. 1 (1913). In this case the severity of the regulation furnished additional reason for its disallowance.
[983] 226 U.S. 491 (1913). For the Court's reiteration of the formula governing such cases, see ibid. 505-506. See also Barrett v. New York, 232 U.S. 14 (1914); Chicago, R.I. & P.R. Co. v. Cramer, 232 U.S. 490 (1914); Atchison, T. & S.F.R. Co. v. Harold, 241 U.S. 371 (1916); Missouri P.R. Co. v. Porter, 273 U.S. 341 (1927). A year before the enactment of the Carmack Amendment the Court had held that the imposition by a State upon the initial or any connecting carrier of the duty of tracing the freight and informing the shipper in writing when, where, how, and by which carrier the freight was lost, damaged, or destroyed, and of giving the names of the parties and their official position, by whom the truth of the facts set out in the information could be established, was, when applied to interstate commerce, a violation of the commerce clause. Central of Georgia R. Co. v. Murphey, 196 U.S. 194, 202 (1905). The Court's opinion definitely invited Congress to deal with the subject, as it does in the Carmack Amendment.
[984] 35 Stat. 65 (1908); 36 Stat. 291 (1910).
[985] 34 Stat. 1415 (1907).
[986] 27 Stat. 531 (1893); 32 Stat. 943 (1903).
[987] Mondou v. New York, N.H. & H.R. Co. (Second Employers' Liability Cases), 223 U.S. 1 (1912); Southern R. Co. v. Railroad Com., 236 U.S. 439 (1915).
[988] Erie R. Co. v. New York, 233 U.S. 671 (1914).
[989] 26 Stat. 414 (1890).
[990] Crossman v. Lurman, 192 U.S. 189 (1904).
[991] 34 Stat. 768 (1906); Savage v. Jones, 225 U.S. 501 (1912), citing Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry. Co. v. Haber, 169 U.S. 613 (1898); Reid v. Colorado, 187 U.S. 137 (1902); Asbell v. Kansas, 209 U.S. 251 (1908); Southern Ry. Co. v. Reid, 222 U.S. 424, 442 (1912).