Annual Report, Volúmenes1-2Sentinel Publishing Company, 1916 |
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Página 310 - 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...
Página 343 - Public policy, in relation to this question, is that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the law.
Página 294 - On the other hand, a bond, like a promissory note, is a promise to pay a certain sum of money at a certain time with interest at a fixed rate.
Página 196 - That no operator, train dispatcher, or other employee who by the use of the telegraph or telephone dispatches, reports, transmits, receives, or delivers orders pertaining to or affecting train movements...
Página 103 - The cost of reproduction method is of service in ascertaining the present value of the plant, when it is reasonably applied and when the cost of reproducing the property may be ascertained with a proper degree of certainty.
Página 101 - The owner would not be entitled to demand payment of the amount which the property might be deemed worth to the company ; or of an enhanced value by virtue of the purpose for which it was taken ; or of an increase over its fair market value, by reason of any added value supposed to result from its combination with tracts acquired from others, so as to make it a part of a continuous railroad right of way held in one ownership.
Página 267 - It is perhaps correct .to say that public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good...
Página 206 - There are sufficient authorities, most of which have been discussed elsewhere, to the effect that thenobligation to give service is not confined to the original pipes which have been laid, or wires which have been strung. Such companies are held to undertake the service of their communities; and they must, to speak in general, be prepared to extend this system throughout their district to meet the reasonable demands of the growing...
Página 207 - It would not be said that either a water company or a gas company, establishing its service under the constitutional grant, could stop its mains at its pleasure and withhold its supply by refusing to extend its distributing conduits so as to meet the reasonable requirements of the community. But this duty and the right to serve, embracing the right under the granted privilege to install the means of service, were correlative.
Página 188 - Hollister v. Hollister Water Co. PUR1915D, 626. In Sausalito v. Marin Water & Power Co. PUR1916A, 244, the same Commission says: "Now, however, it is unanimously held that the provisions of the Federal Constitution forbidding laws impairing the obligation of contracts, and declaring that property shall not be taken without due process of law, have no application to the regulation and supervision of public utilities , by the state, under its police power. N"o public utility can. by the simple device...