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Page 81 - ... there can be no doubt of their power and duty to inquire whether a body of rates prescribed by a legislature or a commission is unjust and unreasonable, and such as to work a practical destruction to rights of property, and if found so to be, to restrain its operation.
Page 44 - That any person, firm, corporation, or association, or any mercantile, agricultural, or manufacturing society, or any body politic or municipal organization complaining of anything done or omitted to be done by any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act in contravention of the provisions thereof, may apply to said Commission by petition, which shall briefly state the facts ; whereupon a statement of the charges...
Page 81 - ... circumstances would be fair and reasonable as between the carriers and the shippers; they do not engage in any mere administrative work; but still there can be no doubt of their power and duty to inquire whether a body of rates prescribed by a legislature or a commission is...
Page 77 - ... be deemed and taken, in all courts of this State, as prima facie evidence that the rates therein fixed are reasonable maximum rates of charges...
Page 114 - If a consolidated company, name the constituent companies ? Give reference to charters of each, and all amendments of same.. 5. Date and authority for each consolidation? .6. If a reorganized company, give name of original corporation, and refer to laws under which it was organized?
Page 2 - ... containing such facts, statements and explanations as will disclose the actual workings of the system of railroad transportation in its bearings upon the business and prosperity of the people of this state, and such suggestions in relation thereto as to them may seem appropriate.
Page 110 - Oregon. 4. If a consolidated company, name the constituent companies. [Give reference to charters of each, and all amendments of same.] Not a consolidated company.
Page 157 - RENTALS PAID. Rents Paid for Lease of Tracks, Yards and Terminals. Designation of Property. Situation of Property Leased. Name of Company Owning Property Leased.
Page 46 - No guaranty was ever given by the state to the old road that the price of materials and the cost of construction would not decline, or that capital invested in railroads should not be subject to like vicissitudes as capital invested in other enterprises. Modern improvements and other causes have continued to reduce the cost of construction of all kinds of new plants, and to reduce the value of old plants, or render them wholly worthless, and the state did not guaranty that those causes should not...
Page 59 - At the time the complaint herein was made, the said two competing railroad companies, the Great Northern Railway Company and the Northern Pacific Railway Company, had so established the rates, and each charged from East Grand Forks and Fisher to Minneapolis, or to Duluth, the sum of 17 cents per hundred pounds; and from Crookston to Minneapolis or Duluth, 16£ cents per hundred pounds.