Commission Leaflets: Recent Commission Orders, Rulings and Decisions from the Following States, Issues 67-72 |
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25 cents additional amount appears application approved AUTHORITY TO INCREASE business rate business telephones Butler County cable capital stock cents per month circuits Coles County Commission Leaflet COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY company's complainant conductors construction cost County Telephone David City Decided June defendant depreciation electric equipment Extension bells Extension telephones farm lines filed furnished further ordered hearing hereby Home Telephone Illinois Indiana installed issue Kewaskum Lake Pepin Oostburg operating expenses OPINION AND ORDER paid pany par value petition petitioner phone Company physical connection plant poles present proposed Public Service Commission public utility purchase Railroad reasonable rental residence telephones respondent revenues Riddle Hill rural lines scribers Section South Whitley stockholders subscribers switchboard Tele Telegraph Company Telephone and Telegraph Telephone Company telephone exchange telephone line telephone service territory thereof tion toll charge toll lines toll messages town two-party village volts Whitley County wires
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Page 287 - ... the provisions of this act, than it charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service In the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which Is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 67 - Any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, under the laws of any state, shall have the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States...
Page 730 - That if any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation...
Page 101 - It is entitled to see that from earnings the value of the property invested is kept unimpaired, so that at the end of any given term of years the original investment remains as it was at the beginning. It is not only the right of the company to make such a provision, but it is its duty to its bond and stockholders, and, in the case of a public service corporation at least, its plain duty to the public.
Page 1162 - If, however, a company fails to perform this plain duty and to exact sufficient returns to keep the investment unimpaired, whether this is the result of unwarranted dividends upon over-issues of securities, or of omission to exact proper prices for the output, the fault is its own. When, therefore, a public regulation of its prices comes under question the true value of the property then employed for the purpose of earning a return cannot be enhanced by a consideration of the errors in management...
Page 67 - Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States, over and along any of the military or post roads of the United States...
Page 1162 - Before coming to the question of profit at all the company is entitled to earn a sufficient sum annually to provide not only for current repairs but for making good the depreciation and replacing the parts of the property when they come to the end of their life. The company is not bound to see its property gradually waste, without making provision out of earnings for its replacement. It is entitled to see that from earnings the value of the property invested is kept unimpaired, so that at the end...
Page 734 - Correctness in the transmission of messages to any point on the lines of this company can be insured by contract in writing, stating agreed amount of risk, and payment of premium thereon at the following rates, in addition to the usual charge for repeated messages, viz.: One per cent, for any distance not exceeding 1,000 miles, and two per cent, for any greater distance.
Page 547 - ... for the reimbursement of moneys actually expended from income, or from any other moneys in the treasury of the corporation not secured by or obtained from the issue of stocks, bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness of such corporation...
Page 549 - ... said accounts, vouchers and records shall be open to audit, and may be audited from time to time by accountants and examiners designated for such purpose by the Commission.