Public Utilities ReportsHenry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1920 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... contracts . Rates - - Effect of contract . - Power of Commission 3. The Virginia Commission has full power to regulate rates of a public utility , save in so far as such matters may have become irrevoca- bly fixed by a franchise made in ...
... contracts . Rates - - Effect of contract . - Power of Commission 3. The Virginia Commission has full power to regulate rates of a public utility , save in so far as such matters may have become irrevoca- bly fixed by a franchise made in ...
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... contract with a public utility fixing rates and service beyond its own territorial limits . Rates - Contract Ultra vires provision . - 8. The inclusion in a municipal franchise granted to a telephone company of a provision fixing rates ...
... contract with a public utility fixing rates and service beyond its own territorial limits . Rates - Contract Ultra vires provision . - 8. The inclusion in a municipal franchise granted to a telephone company of a provision fixing rates ...
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... Contract with Western Electric Company . Discussion of benefit of contract of telephone company with Wes- tern Electric Company , p . 96 . Service - Telephones - Measured service . Discussion of advantages and disadvantages of measured ...
... Contract with Western Electric Company . Discussion of benefit of contract of telephone company with Wes- tern Electric Company , p . 96 . Service - Telephones - Measured service . Discussion of advantages and disadvantages of measured ...
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... contract is completed in strict conformity with the statutory requirements and only to the extent that the contract itself is finally determinative of the rights and obligations of the parties . If , notwithstanding the contract , there ...
... contract is completed in strict conformity with the statutory requirements and only to the extent that the contract itself is finally determinative of the rights and obligations of the parties . If , notwithstanding the contract , there ...
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... contract for stipulated service at agreed rates beyond the territorial limits of the municipality by which the franchise was granted . As [ 4 ] Inasmuch as the first and third inquiries are to some ex- tent interrelated , it may ...
... contract for stipulated service at agreed rates beyond the territorial limits of the municipality by which the franchise was granted . As [ 4 ] Inasmuch as the first and third inquiries are to some ex- tent interrelated , it may ...
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Page 88 - 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. 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...
Page 597 - 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-eviden.t. 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 5 - ... and the classification, regulation, or practice thereafter to be observed, in such manner as, in its judgment, will remove such advantage, preference, prejudice, or discrimination. Such rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, and practices shall be observed while in effect by the carriers parties to such proceeding affected thereby, the law of any State or the decision or order of any State authority to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 745 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation; which embraces everything within the territory of a State, not surrendered to the general government; all which can be most advantageously exercised by the States themselves.
Page 5 - ... shall prescribe the rate, fare, or charge, or the maximum or minimum, or maximum and minimum, thereafter to be charged, and the classification, regulation, or practice thereafter to be observed, in such manner as, in its judgment, will remove such advantage, preference, prejudice, or discrimination.
Page 665 - The exercise of the right of eminent domain shall never be abridged, or so construed as to prevent the General Assembly from taking the property and franchises of incorporated companies, and subjecting them to public use, the same as the property of individuals; and the exercise of the police power of the State shall never be abridged or so construed as to permit corporations to conduct their business in such manner as to infringe the equal rights of individuals or the general well-being of the State.
Page 593 - ... and we concur with the court below in holding that the value of the property is to be determined as of the time when the inquiry is made regarding the rates. If the property which legally enters into the consideration of the question of rates has increased in value since it was acquired, the company is entitled to the benefit of such increase.
Page 4 - Commission shall with due regard among other things to a reasonable average return upon the value of the property actually used in the public service and to the necessity of making reservation out of income for surplus and contingencies...
Page 313 - ... the commission shall with due regard among other things to a reasonable average return upon the value of the property actually used in the public service...
Page 966 - No public utility shall, with respect to any transmission or sale subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, (1) make or grant any undue preference or advantage to any person or subject any person to any undue prejudice or disadvantage, or (2) maintain any unreasonable difference in rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, either as between localities or as between classes of service.