A Treatise on the Law of Public Utilities: Including Motor Vehicle TransportationBobbs-Merrill, 1925 - 1065 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 279 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large.
Page 130 - No county, city, town, township, school district or other political corporation or subdivision of the State shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the voters thereof voting at an election to be held for that purpose...
Page 923 - The province of the courts is not changed, nor the limit of judicial inquiry altered, because the legislature instead of the carrier prescribes the rates. The courts are not authorized to revise or change the body of rates imposed by a legislature or a commission; they do not determine whether one rate is preferable to another, or what under all circumstances would be fair and reasonable as between the carriers and the shippers; they do not engage in any mere administrative work; but still there...
Page 581 - But it should also be remembered that the judiciary ought not to interfere with the collection of rates established under legislative sanction unless they are so plainly and palpably unreasonable as to make their enforcement equivalent to the taking of property for public use without such compensation as, under all the circumstances, Is Just both to the owner and to the public...
Page 310 - Corporations which devote their property to a public use may not pick and choose, serving only the portions of the territory covered by their franchises, which it is presently profitable for them to serve, and restricting the development of the remaining portions by leaving their inhabitants in discomfort without the service which they alone can render.
Page 575 - If a corporation cannot maintain such a highway and earn dividends for stockholders, It Is a misfortune for It and them which the constitution does not require to be remedied by Imposing unjust burdens upon the public.
Page 617 - 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.
Page 545 - ... upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.
Page 44 - To construct, operate, maintain, extend, manage and control works and property for the purpose of supplying the city and its inhabitants with water...
Page 12 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable.