 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - Legislative hearings - 1974 - 1666 pages
...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." cfiicmio M. d- Ht. PKK Co. v. Mimu'xota. 134 US 41*. 458 (1890). In these circumstances, it is unrealistic... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1974 - 990 pages
...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 - 938 pages
...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 E. Kahn - Business & Economics - 1988 - 620 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 - Law - 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... | |
 | John Rogers Commons - 434 pages
...limitation is not the equivalent of confiscation." i456.l And confiscation, or the reasonableness of a rate, "is eminently a question for judicial investigation,...requiring due process of law for its determination." i458.l Thus Justice Field's definition of property as the exchangevalue of property was approved and,... | |
 | Scott Bowman - Political Science - 2010 - 454 pages
...rates in this case, it claimed the power to do so: "The question of the reasonableness of a rate of charge ... is eminently a question for judicial investigation,...requiring due process of law for its determination." The Court also held that the equal protection clause had been violated. Justice Joseph Bradley, in... | |
 | Free enterprise - 1997 - 446 pages
...reasonableness of a rate of charge for transportation by a railroad company," Justice Blatchford observed, "... is eminently a question for judicial investigation,...requiring due process of law for its determination." He added: If the company is deprived of the power of charging reasonable rates for the use of its property,... | |
 | David H. Rosenbloom, Rosemary O'Leary, Joshua Chanin - Law - 1996 - 372 pages
...that The question of the reasonableness of a rate charge for transportation by a railroad company ... is eminently a question for judicial investigation,...requiring due process of law for its determination. If the company is deprived of the power of charging reasonable rates for the use of its property, and... | |
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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,... 
