| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1905 - 322 páginas
...by statute, and the sum required to meet operating expenses, are all matters of consideration. * * * What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return...the services rendered by it are reasonably worth. That existing freight rates are excessive may be shown by calculations based on facts stated in the... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1905 - 778 páginas
...not say that there may not be other matters to be regarded in estimating the value o'f the property. What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return...the services rendered by it are reasonably worth." (Id.. Г>4Г>, 547.) ttw Commission would probably not have even i>rima facie force, because the question... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1905 - 436 páginas
...not say that there may not be other matters to be regarded in estimating the value of the propery. What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return...the services rendered by it are reasonably worth. And again : It can not, therefore, be admitted that a railroad corporation, maintaining a highway under... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1905 - 812 páginas
...42 L. ed. 849, 18 Sup. Ct. Rep. 418), the supreme Court held that "the public is entitled to demand that no more be exacted from it for the use of a public...the services rendered by it are reasonably worth."' . . . "It cannot therefore be admitted that a railroad corporation maintaining a highway under the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1905 - 322 páginas
...employs tor the pub: convenience. On the other hand, what the public is entitled to demand is that ) more be exacted from it for the use of a public highway than the services ren;red by it are reasonably worth. Whenever, therefore, a rate should he established by the Commision... | |
| 1906 - 802 páginas
...by statute, and the sum required to meet operating expenses, are all matters of consideration. * * * What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return...services rendered by it are reasonably worth. This being the law, and being founded in principle, all rates over and above such a sum as will make a fair... | |
| Frank Hendrick - 1906 - 604 páginas
...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...the services rendered by it are reasonably worth." 1 In Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company v. Tompkins,2 Mr. Justice Brewer says : "Few... | |
| 1906 - 930 páginas
...that there may not be nther matters tn be regarded in estimating the value of the property. What a company is entitled to ask is a fair return upon the...the services rendered by it are reasonably worth. A study of the foregoing indicates tliat while it might furnish a very satisfactory test to determine... | |
| Illinois. Railroad and Warehouse Commission - 1906 - 414 páginas
...regarded in estimating the value of the property. What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return on the value of that which it employs for the public...the services rendered by it are reasonably worth. 'Each case must depend upon its special facts, and when a court, without assuming itself to prescribe... | |
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