| United States - Law - 1918 - 1138 pages
...should be a reasonable compensation for the services of persons exercising a public employment, or to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. But in Dow v. Beidelman, (1888) 125 US 680, after citing Munn f. Illinois, (1876) 94 US 113; Chicago,... | |
| Bruce Wyman - Public utilities - 1920 - 638 pages
...question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial...is reasonable must be ascertained judicially. But tins is because the legislature hns no control over such a contract. So, too, in matters which do affect... | |
| Bruce Wyman - Public utilities - 1920 - 634 pages
...question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial...beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable. Undoubted!}', in mere private contracts, relating to matters in which the public has no interest, what... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1084 pages
...question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial...beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable." Munn v. Illinois, 94 US 113, 133 (24 L. Ed. 77). In one of the most recent cases the same court said:... | |
| Harleigh Holroyd Hartman - Public Utilities - 1920 - 296 pages
...question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails it has been customary from time immemorial...reasonable compensation under such circumstances. . . . Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due... | |
| New York (State). Governor - 1920 - 844 pages
...question. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what shall he a reasonable compensation under such circumstances, or, perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 1652 pages
...otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immémorial for the legislature to declare what shall be a reasonable...Undoubtedly, in mere private contracts, relating to mat-' ters in which the public has no interest, what is reasonable must be ascertained judicially.... | |
| Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre - Railroads - 1920 - 696 pages
...the common law prevails, jt has been customary from time immemorial for the Legislature to_dfi.clare what shall be a reasonable compensation under such...beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable^ . T". The controlling fact is the power to regulate at all. If that exists, the right to establish... | |
| Henry Clifford Spurr - Public service commissions - 1924 - 840 pages
...law prevailed it had been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what should be a reasonable compensation under such circumstances,...contracts relating to matters in which the public had no interest, what was reasonable must be ascertained judicially. But this was because the legislature... | |
| Charles Kellogg Burdick - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1924 - 772 pages
...qnp.st.inn. As has already been shown, the practice has been otherwise. In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what shall be a fnTflpfiTlfffl*1'"7' rmd?r punk '•'JT'imPtlinfOT, or, p°rhflp° Undoubtedly, in mere private contracts,... | |
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