Section 70. Rights and liabilities as common carriers  


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  • Every railroad
      corporation doing business in this state shall be a common carrier.  Any
      one  of  two  or more corporations owning or operating connecting roads,
      within this state, or partly within and partly without the state,  shall
      be  liable  as a common carrier, for the transportation of passengers or
      delivery of freight received by it to be transported by it to any  place
      on  the  line of a connecting road; and if it shall become liable to pay
      any sum by reason of neglect or misconduct of any other  corporation  it
      may  collect  the  same of the corporation by reason of whose neglect or
      misconduct it became liable.