Public Utilities ReportsHenry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1916 - Law reports, digests, etc |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstract additional allowance amount application April Board bonds capital stock carloads carriers cars cent certificate charge Chicago Circular Commissioners commodity tariff common carriers Company law company's complaint construction consumers contract corporation cost court defendant depreciation Electric Company Electric Light engineer equipment establishing excess exchange fare filed fixed franchise furnish gallons Gas Company hearing increase installed investment irrigation issue jitneys Lehigh Valley Lewiston March March 29 Mechanic Falls meter miles minimum month mortgage municipal operating expenses order approving supplement order authorizing pany par value passenger payment petitioner plant Power Company preferred stock present proposed Public Service Commission Public Utilities act Public Utilities Commission purchase purpose Railroad Commission rates reasonable respondent revenue schedule stockholders street railway subscribers sumers supply switching Teleg Teleph Telephone Company thereof tion toll valuation village water company West Allis York C. R.
Popular passages
Page 594 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large.
Page 297 - Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines and those connecting therewith...
Page 751 - No complaint shall at any time be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant.
Page 597 - 'the question of the reasonableness of a rate of charge for transportation by a railroad company, involving as it does the element of reasonableness both as regards the company and as regards the public, is eminently a question for judicial investigation, requiring due process of law for its determination.
Page 425 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.
Page 567 - A gas corporation or electrical corporation organized or existing, or hereafter incorporated, under or by virtue of the laws of the state of New York, may issue stocks, bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness payable at periods of more than twelve months after the date thereof...
Page 608 - 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 109 - No common carrier shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person or corporation or to any locality or to any particular description of traffic in any respect whatsoever...
Page 594 - It may be said in a general way that the police power extends to all the great public needs. ... It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality or strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 927 - public policy' is intended that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the law...