The Special Law Governing Public Service Corporations, and All Others Engaged in Public Employment, Volume 1Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1911 - 1517 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 79 - Looking, then, to the common law, from whence came the right which the Constitution protects, we find that when private property is 'affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only.
Page 120 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 47 - There is no doubt that the general principle is favored, both in law and justice, that every man may fix what price he pleases upon his own property, or the use of it...
Page 16 - Under these powers the government regulates the conduct of its citizens one towards another, and the manner in which each shall use his own property, when such regulation becomes necessary for the public good.
Page 17 - In their exercise it has been customary in England from time immemorial, and in this country from its first colonization, to regulate ferries, common carriers, hackmen, bakers, millers, wharfingers, innkeepers, etc., and in so doing to fix a maximum of charge to be made for services rendered, accommodations furnished, and articles sold.
Page 145 - common carrier" has, therefore, been defined to be one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him from place to place.
Page 46 - The objects for which a corporation is created are universally such as the government wishes to promote. They are deemed beneficial to the country; and this benefit constitutes the consideration and, in most cases, the sole consideration of the grant.
Page 617 - He must be engaged in the business of carrying goods for others as a public employment, and must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for persons generally as a business, and not as a casual occupation. 2. He must undertake to carry goods of the kind to which his business is confined. 3. He must undertake to carry by the methods by which his business is conducted and over his established road.
Page 567 - One water company, or one telephone company, or one telegraph company, or one street railway company, or one railroad company while bound appropriately to serve the general public, cannot, unless under express statutory enactment, and by due process of law thereunder, be compelled to give its property to the uses and benefits of a rival except by some form of condemnation. The rival is not ordinarily to be included in the term 'general public.
Page 82 - ... applied to it, this would have to be done by the legislature (if not restrained from doing so by the constitution), before a demand for such use could be enforced by the courts.