Hazen v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““Sick or well, one who is carried, for hire, through the streets in a vehicle kept and driven by another for such purposes seems to us to be a passenger in the ordinary sense of the word. Whether the hire is greater or less than the cost of the service is not material. Unless a restricted meaning is to be given to the word ‘passenger’ in this statute, it follows that these ambulances are ‘passenger vehicles for hire.’ We see no reason for giving the word a restricted meaning. In fact, there is excellent reason for not doing so, since § 1731(e) of the Code defines by reference to the quoted section those vehicles whose drivers are required to have ‘character’ licenses and display numbered badges. These requirements seem at least as appropriate to ambulance drivers, who carry helpless passengers, as to cab drivers.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Flanigan v. Carswell

2. ““Owners of passenger vehicles for ■ hire,-whether operated from a-private establishment or' from public space, other than those licensed in the two preceding paragraphs, shall pay a license tax of $25 per annum for each such vehicle used in the conduct of their business.” D.C.Code Supp. IV, T. 20, § 1731(d).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Flanigan v. Carswell