 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1905
...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." Even when the Legislature acts directly the courts have power to set aside unreasonable rates. In Chicago,... | |
 | 1908
...confiscation of the company's property. And again, the question of the reasonableness of a rate charged is eminently a question for judicial investigation,...requiring due process of law for its determination. And the very use of the term 'regulation' implies that an investigation shall be made; that an opportunity... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce Committee - 1974 - 86 pages
...enduring principle that "[t]he question of the reasonableness of a rate of charge for transportation ... is eminently a question for judicial investigation,...requiring -due process of law for its determination." Chicago, M. & St. PR Co. v. Minnesota, 134 US 418, 458, 33 L.Ed 970, 981 (1880). "Pocket vetos" in... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce Committee - 1974
...the alleged "prejudicial" nature of a freight rate — long and well recognized as being "imminently a question for judicial investigation, requiring due process of law for its determination." Cliicauo M. d N*. PHK Co. v. Minnesota, 134 fS 41S, 458 (1800). In these circumstances, it is unrealistic... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901
...limitation is not the equivalent of confiscation, and that the question of the reasonableness of a rate is a question for judicial investigation requiring due process of law for its determination. Again the language used by the supreme court was misunderstood, and by some was held to mean that the... | |
 | Alfred Edward Kahn - Business & Economics - 1988 - 559 pages
...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."35 Finally, in Smyth v. Ames, in 1898, the Court not only strongly reaffirmed its responsibility... | |
 | David P. Currie - History - 1994 - 682 pages
...possessing the machinery of a court of justice. . . . The question of the reasonableness of a rate ... is eminently a question for judicial investigation, requiring due process of law for its determination.92 Blatchford failed to identify just what the property was of which the company had... | |
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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,... 
