 The legislature undoubtedly has a wide range of discretion in the exercise of the power to prescribe reasonable charges, and it is not bound to fix uniform rates for all commodities, or to secure the same percentage of profit on every sort of business.  Public Utilities Reports - Page 673edited by - 1916Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...regulating the intrastate rates of a carrier has a wide range of power to prescribe reasonable charges, and is not bound to fix uniform rates for all commodities or to secure the same percentage of profit on any business, it cannot compel a carrier to transport a commodity or a particular class of traffic... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1930 - 1010 pages
...may be varied is clearly indicated in the case just cited, where the court said, at pages 598, 599 : The legislature, undoubtedly has a wide range of discretion...prescribe reasonable charges, and It Is not bound to flx uniform rates for all commodities or to secure the same percentage of profit on every sort of business.... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1916 - 962 pages
...as of other rates. As was said by the Supreme Court hi NP Ry. v. North Dakota, 236 US, 585, at 599: There are many factors to be considered — differences in the articles transported, the care required, the risk assumed, the value of the service, and it is obviously important that there should... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1916 - 940 pages
...as of other rates. As was said by the Supreme Court in NP Ry. v. North Dakota, 236 US, 585, at 599: There are many factors to be considered — differences in the articles transported, the cmre required, the rink assumed, the value of the service, and it is obviously important that there... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 982 pages
...the ground of public policy if, upon the facts found, it should be deemed to be less than reasonable. The legislature undoubtedly has a wide range of discretion...of the power to prescribe reasonable charges, and ait is not bound to fix uniform rates for »11 ? commodities, or to secure the lame percentage of profit... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1384 pages
...the ground of public policy if, upon the facts found, it should be deemed to be less than reasonable. The legislature, undoubtedly, has a wide range of...charges, and it is not bound to fix uniform rates for all [599] commodities or to secure the same percentage of profit on every sort of business. There are many... | |
 | Illinois. Public Utilities Commission - Public utilities - 1918 - 1384 pages
...bounds of reason. In this connection in the same case, the Supreme Court has this to say at page 287, "The Legislature undoubtedly has a wide range of discretion...differences in the articles transported, the care required, the risk assumed, the value of the service, and it is obviously important that there should... | |
 | Needham Calvin Collier - Public service commissions - 1918 - 722 pages
...commission lawfully constituted by it as to matters within the province of either." And, "the legislature has a wide range of discretion in the exercise of the power to prescribe reasonable charges."3 Where a carrier resists the enforcement of a rule binding alike upon all carriers in the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 1030 pages
...service could not be made an excuse for fixing rates below cost, the United States Supreme Court said: "The legislature, undoubtedly, has a wide range of...differences in the articles transported, the care required, the risk assumed, the value of the service, and it is obviously important that there should... | |
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