§13-1. Contract of carriage defined.
A contract of carriage is a contract for the conveyance of property, persons or messages from one place to another. R.L. 1910, § 783.
§13-10. Telegraph and telephone companies – Excessive rates.
All agents or operators for any telegraph or telephone company doing business in this state are hereby prohibited from knowingly charging, collecting or receiving pay for any message sent or received by them in excess of the regular rate charged for the same. R.L. 1910, § 792.
§13-11. Rate schedules – Inspection.
In order to ascertain what the regular charges of such companies are, all railroad, express, telegraph, and telephone companies doing business in this state are hereby required to keep in all their offices in this state, a schedule of the regular rates charged by them, which shall be open to the inspection of any person […]
§13-111. Time for payment.
A carrier may require his freightage to be paid upon his receiving the freight; but if he does not demand it then, he cannot until he is ready to deliver the freight to the consignee. R.L. 1910, § 835.
§13-112. Liability of consignor.
The consignor of freight is presumed to be liable for the freightage, but if the contract between him and the carrier provides that the consignee shall pay it, and the carrier allows the consignee to take the freight, he cannot afterwards recover the freightage from the consignor. R.L. 1910, § 836.
§13-113. Liability of consignee.
The consignee of freight is liable for the freightage, if he accepts the freight with notice of the intention of the consignor that he should pay it. R.L. 1910, § 837.
§13-114. Natural increase.
No freightage can be charged upon the natural increase of freight. R.L. 1910, § 838.
§13-115. Apportionment of freightage.
If freightage is apportioned by a bill of lading, or other contract made between a consignor and carrier, the carrier is entitled to payment according to the apportionment for so much as he delivers. R.L. 1910, § 839.
§13-116. Apportionment on acceptance of part of freight.
If a part of the freight is accepted by a consignee without a specific objection that the rest is not delivered, the freightage must be apportioned and paid as to that part, though not apportioned in the original contract. R.L. 1910, § 840.
§13-117. Apportionment according to distance.
If a consignee voluntarily receives freight at a place short of the one appointed for delivery, the carrier is entitled to a just proportion of the freightage, according to distance. If the carrier, being ready and willing, offers to complete the transit, he is entitled to the full freightage. If he does not thus offer […]
§13-118. Extra carriage.
If freight is carried further, or more expeditiously than was agreed upon by the parties, the carrier is not entitled to additional compensation, and cannot refuse to deliver it on the demand of the consignee at the place and time of its arrival. R.L. 1910, § 842.
§13-12. Overcharges – Penalty.
Any person who shall violate the provisions of Sections 792 and 793 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). R.L. 1910, § 794.
§13-13. Concealing rate schedules – Penalty.
Any agent of any railroad, express, telegraph, or telephone company who shall fail or refuse to show the schedule of rates of said company to any person or persons interested therein, and allow him or them to examine the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in […]
§13-131. Liability for loss or injury – Exceptions.
Unless the consignor accompanies the freight and retains exclusive control thereof, a common carrier of property is liable, from the time that he accepts until he relieves himself from liability as hereinafter provided, for the loss or injury thereof from any cause whatever, except: 1. An inherent defect, vice or weakness, or a spontaneous action, […]
§13-132. Liability for negligence in excepted cases.
A common carrier is liable, even in the cases excepted by the preceding section, if his ordinary negligence exposes the property to the cause of the loss. R.L. 1910, § 816.
§13-133. Liability for delays.
A common carrier is liable for delay only when it is caused by his want of ordinary care and diligence. R.L. 1910, § 843.
§13-134. Precious metals and other valuables – Liability for loss or injury – Notice of nature of freight.
A common carrier of gold, silver, platina, or precious stones, or of imitations thereof, in a manufactured or unmanufactured state, or timepieces of any description, of negotiable paper or other valuable writings, of pictures, glass or china ware, is not liable for more than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) upon the loss or injury of any one […]
§13-14. Limitation of obligations.
The obligations of a common carrier cannot be limited by general notice on his part, but may be limited by special contract. R.L. 1910, § 796.
§13-15. Exoneration from liability.
A common carrier cannot be exonerated by any agreement made in anticipation thereof, from liability for the gross negligence, fraud or willful wrong, of himself or his servants. R.L. 1910, § 797.
§13-151. Coal – Statement of weight in bill of lading.
Whenever any coal is shipped over any common carrier from any point within the State of Oklahoma to any other point within the said State, the common carrier transporting such coal shall issue a bill of lading stating the true weight of the coal so transported. R.L. 1910, § 848.