 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1920 - 694 halaman
...rate-making purposes is the cost of reproduction new, less depreciation. This contention cannot be sustained. The basis of all calculations as to the reasonableness...rates to be charged by a corporation maintaining a public utility under legislative sanction must be the fair value of the property being used by it for... | |
 | Iowa. Board of Railroad Commissioners - 1899 - 348 halaman
...the hands of the legislature when exerting its general powers is that it receive what, under all the circumstances, is such compensation for the use of...the public." We hold, however, that the basis of all caiculations as to the reasonableness of rates to be charged by a corporation maintaining a highway... | |
 | 1897 - 1036 halaman
...protection of the laws. The circumstances of each company must determine what rates of toll will give it such compensation for the use of its property as will be just to it and the public. In Error to the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky. JW Bryan and WW Mackoy,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1897 - 790 halaman
...the hands of the legislature when exerting its general powers is that it receive what, under all the circumstances, is such compensation for the use of...property as will be just both to it and to the public. If the rates prescribed for the defendant in this case were manifestly much lower — taking them as... | |
 | William John Tossell - 1915 - 724 halaman
...the hands of the legislature when exerting its general powers is that it receive what, under all the circumstances is such compensation for the use of...property as will be just, both to it and to the public. ' ' Again, in San Diego Land & Town Co. v. National City, 174 US 739 [19 Sup. Ct. Rep. 804; 43 L. Ed.... | |
 | 1899 - 942 halaman
...hands of the legislature, when exerting its general powers, is that it receive what, under all the circumstances, is such compensation for the use of...property as will be just both to it and to the public." In regard to whether the contention of the complainant that it has a right to earn enough to pay all... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1899 - 286 halaman
...considered in determining whether the legislature has exceeded its constitutional authority. It was held, however, that the basis of all calculations as- to the reasonableness of railway rates must be the fair value of the property being used for the convenience of the public;... | |
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We hold, however, that the basis of all calculations as to the reasonableness of rates to be charged by a corporation maintaining a highway under legislative sanction must he the fair value of the property being used by it for the convenience of the public. 
