Social Science Quarterly, Volume 3University of Texas Press, 1923 - Political science Includes section "Book reviews." |
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What is the value upon which a utility has any inherent right under the
constitution to earn a fair return ? Is it the original cost of construction and
acquirement — the actual investment in dollars — or is it the market value of the
property at the ...
What is the value upon which a utility has any inherent right under the
constitution to earn a fair return ? Is it the original cost of construction and
acquirement — the actual investment in dollars — or is it the market value of the
property at the ...
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But is it not apparent that there is no such thing as a legal valuation and that our
courts have been , as one writer said , 5 " on a twenty - year search for a fact that
does not exist ” merely because they had presupposed a constitutional theory ...
But is it not apparent that there is no such thing as a legal valuation and that our
courts have been , as one writer said , 5 " on a twenty - year search for a fact that
does not exist ” merely because they had presupposed a constitutional theory ...
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Court has laid down as a matter of law , as a necessary part of any decision , the
rule that either original investment or reproduction cost were necessarily the
constitutional basis of valuation . It is true that in Smyth v . Ames the court does
lay ...
Court has laid down as a matter of law , as a necessary part of any decision , the
rule that either original investment or reproduction cost were necessarily the
constitutional basis of valuation . It is true that in Smyth v . Ames the court does
lay ...
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He says : In exerting the rate making power the rates cannot be made so low as
to be confiscatory without violating the Constitution — that from the act of fixing
railroad rates by law there resulted the duty to provide an opportunity for testing ...
He says : In exerting the rate making power the rates cannot be made so low as
to be confiscatory without violating the Constitution — that from the act of fixing
railroad rates by law there resulted the duty to provide an opportunity for testing ...
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The Constitution endows the Commission with the powers of a court to enforce its
orders by such proceedings . By boldly violating an order a party against whom it
was directed may provoke a complaint and if the complaint results in a citation ...
The Constitution endows the Commission with the powers of a court to enforce its
orders by such proceedings . By boldly violating an order a party against whom it
was directed may provoke a complaint and if the complaint results in a citation ...
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