Commission Leaflets: Recent Commission Orders, Rulings and Decisions from the Following States, Issues 31-34 |
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50 per month appears application approval April April 23 Bannock County Bay Cities Board Bucyrus business telephones central office cents per month charge class of service Commission Leaflet COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY company's complainant construction contract convenience and necessity cost County Telephone Company Crossville depreciation Editor's headnote exchange extension extension telephones Fairbury farm lines filed flat rate franchise furnish further ordered granted Granton hearing hereby Home Telephone Company Hyde County Illinois installed June long distance MATTER messages miles Neillsville OPINION AND ORDER ordinance Pacific Telephone pany patrons petition petitioner phone Company physical connection plant poles proposed public convenience Public Utilities Act public utility reasonable rental respondent revenue Rock County rural lines schedule of rates scribers stations stockholders Streator subscribers switchboard switching service Tele Telegraph Company Telephone and Telegraph telephone exchange telephone service telephone system tion toll lines Traverse City Two-party valuation village West Jersey wires Wisconsin Telephone
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Page 976 - ... of construction, the probable earning capacity of the property under particular rates prescribed by statute, and the sum required to meet operating expenses are all matters for consideration and are to be given such weight as may be just and right in each case. We do not say that there may not be other matters to be regarded in estimating the value of the property. What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return upon the value of that which it employs for the public convenience.
Page 975 - And, in order to ascertain that value, the original cost of construction, the amount expended in permanent improvements, the amount and market value of its bonds and stock, the present as compared with the original cost of construction, the probable earning capacity of the property under particular rates prescribed by statute, and the sum required to meet operating expenses, are all matters for consideration and are to be given such weight as may be just and right in each case. We do not say that...
Page 1199 - Before coming to the question of profit at all the company is entitled to earn a sufficient sum annually to provide not only for current repairs but for making good the depreciation and replacing the parts of the property when they come to the end of their life. The company is not bound to see its property gradually waste, without making provision out of earnings for its replacement. It is entitled to see that from earnings the value of the property invested is kept unimpaired, so that at the end...
Page 966 - That nothing in this Act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments...
Page 672 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.
Page 963 - Soldiers, and of soldiers' and sailors' homes, including those about to enter and those returning home after discharge; to necessary caretakers of live stock, poultry, milk, and fruit; to employees on sleeping cars, express cars, and to linemen of telegraph and telephone companies; to Railway Mail Service employees, post-office inspectors, customs inspectors, and immigration inspectors; to newsboys on trains, baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the common carrier...
Page 1200 - It is entitled to see that from earnings the value of the property invested is kept unimpaired, so that at the end of any given term of years the original investment remains as it was at the beginning. It is not only the right of the company to make such a provision, but it is its duty to its bond and stockholders, and, in the case of a public service corporation at least, its plain duty to the public.
Page 696 - There is no particular rate of compensation which must, in all cases and in all parts of the country, be regarded as sufficient for capital invested in business enterprises. Such compensation must depend greatly upon circumstances and locality; among other things, the amount of risk in the business is a most important factor, as well as the locality where the business is conducted, and the rate expected and usually realized there upon investments of a somewhat similar nature with regard to the risk...
Page 1193 - The ascertainment of that value is not controlled by artificial rules. It is not a matter of formulas, but there must be a reasonable judgment, having its basis in a proper consideration of all relevant facts.
Page 419 - Commission shall have, and it is hereby given, authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders without answer or other formal pleading by the interested carrier or carriers, but upon reasonable notice...