Public Utilities Reports Annotated: Containing Decisions of the Public Service Commissions and of State and Federal CourtsLawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1918 |
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abstract additional allowance amount applicant applicant's apportioned apportionment Asso authority basis bonds Bonne Terre Carrier Mills carriers cars cent charge Chicago city of Lockport Commissioner company's complainant construction consumers contract corporation cost County court cubic feet December 31 defendant depreciation depreciation reserve determine earnings engineer equipment estimated exchange fair fare filed fixed franchise freight furnish gasolene Illinois increase interest Interstate Commerce Commission intrastate investment issue June 30 jurisdiction Kansas labor Lockport ment miles Missouri month Oklahoma operating expenses opinion P. R. Co pany passenger payment petition petitioner plant preferred stock present Public Service Commission Public Utilities Act Public Utilities Commission purpose Railroad Commission railroad company rates reasonable revenue schedule securities Springfield station street railway company subscribers supply Teleg Teleph Telephone Company tion toll track traffic transportation valuation
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Page 623 - 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 be the fair value of the property being used by it for the convenience of the public.
Page 815 - A common carrier, railroad corporation or street railroad corporation organized or existing, or hereafter incorporated, under or by virtue of the laws of the state of Missouri, may issue stocks, bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness payable at periods of more than twelve months after the date thereof...
Page 462 - That there is an element of value in an assembled and established plant, doing business and earning money, over one not thus advanced, is self-evident. This element of value is a property right, and should be considered in determining the value of the property, upon which the owner has a right to make a fair return when the same is privately owned although dedicated to public use.
Page 623 - 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 603 - ... all transportation and transmission companies doing business in this State, in all matters relating to the performance of their public duties and their charges therefor, and of correcting abuses therein by such companies; and to that end the commission shall, from time to time, prescribe, and enforce against such companies, in the manner hereinafter authorized, such rates, charges, classifications of traffic, and rules and regulations, and shall require them to establish and maintain all such...
Page 287 - Wherever the interstate and intrastate transactions of carriers are so related that the government of the one involves the control of the other, it is Congress, and not the State, that is entitled to prescribe the final and dominant rule, for otherwise Congress would be denied the exercise of its constitutional authority and the State, and not the Nation, would be supreme within the national field.
Page 283 - It is ordered, That the above-named defendants, according as they participate in the transportation, be, and they are hereby, notified and required to cease and desist, on or before...
Page 414 - The commission shall have the power, and be charged with the duty, of supervising, regulating and controlling all transportation and transmission companies doing business in this State, in all matters relating to the performance of their public duties and their charges therefor, and of correcting abuses...
Page 689 - ... nor shall the capital stock of a corporation formed by the merger or consolidation of two or more other corporations, exceed the sum of the capital stock of the corporations so consolidated, at the par value thereof,. or such sum and any additional sum actually paid in cash; nor shall any contract for consolidation or lease be capitalized in the stock of any corporation whatever; nor shall any corporation hereafter issue any bonds against or as a lien upon any contract for consolidation or merger.
Page 190 - Cases brought to enjoin, set aside, annul, or suspend in whole or in part any order of the Interstate Commerce Commission.