 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 1244 pages
...necessities. For example, waterworks, electric lights, and telephone service; and it has been said that "any improvement which is highly important to the...sufficient importance to warrant the expense of making, it is a public necessity." Wabash, C. & WRR Co. v. Commerce Commission, 309 111. 418, 141 NE 214. Anything... | |
 | South Dakota. Public Utilities Commission - Railroads - 1926 - 522 pages
...necessity under such a definition- Nor was the first electric light. Even the construction of a water works system in a village is seldom necessary though highly...important to the public convenience and desirable for public welfare may be regarded as a necessity." The Michigan Supreme Court, in Park & Boulevard Commissioners... | |
 | Washington (State). Department of Public Service - Automobiles - 1928 - 722 pages
...similar to ours in the case of Waoash C. rf W. Railroad Company vs. Commerce Commission, 309 111. 412, said: "When the statute requires a certificate of...the public welfare may be regarded as necessary. If lt iB of sufficient importance to warrant the expense of making it, it is a public necessity." The... | |
 | American Economic Association - Economics - 1928 - 624 pages
...construction and extension of a railroad when it said that "the word 'necessity' is not used in its dictionary sense of 'indispensably requisite.' If it were, no...desirable for the public welfare, may be regarded as necessary."1 This much is clear. This simple standard of "public convenience and necessity" as found... | |
 | Economics - 1929 - 304 pages
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Even the construction of a waterworks system in a village is seldom necessary, though highly desirable. However, any improvement which is highly important to the public convenience and desirable for the public welfare may be regarded as necessary. If... 
