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Oklahoma Operating Co. Vs. Love

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the prescribed course of proceedings thereunder, as construed by the supreme court of the state ( harriss-irby cotton co. v. state, 31 okl. 603; shawnee gas & electric co. v. state, 31 okl. 505; oklahoma gin co. v. state, 63 okla. 10), in connection with other legislation ( 1192 to 1207 of the revised ..... its permission, rates higher than those prevailing in 1913 in effect prescribed maximum rates for the service. it was therefore a legislative order, and, under the fourteenth amendment, plaintiff was entitled to an opportunity for a review in the courts of its contention that the rates were not compensatory. chicago, milwaukee & st. paul ry. ..... prescribed rate. obviously a judicial review beset by such deterrents does not satisfy the constitutional requirements, even if otherwise adequate, and therefore the provisions of the acts relating to the enforcement of the rates by penalties are unconstitutional without regard to the question of the insufficiency of those rates. ex parte young, 209 u .....

Cuyahoga River Power Co. Vs. Northern Ohio Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... laws of ohio, their transfer to the other with the consent of the state public utilities commission, and their occupation and use by the other for generating electric power, with assertion of immunity from plaintiff's power of condemnation, worked an impairment of plaintiff's contract, and a taking of its property, by state ..... times, and since its incorporation, actively and diligently and in good faith proceeded to carry out and accomplish its corporate purpose. in april, 1909, the plaintiff amended its resolution of june 4, 1908, and enlarged its proposed plant and the output and product thereof and obtained a grant from the state over the additional ..... its allegations therefore become necessary to consider. plaintiff (appellant) was incorporated as a hydroelectric power company on may 29, 1908, for the purposes specified in the act of the legislature of ohio, passed in 1904, and contained in 10128 and 10134 of the ohio general code of 1910. the articles of incorporation filed may 29 .....

Attorney-General Vs. De Keyser's Royal Hotel, Limited

Court : House of Lords

..... rights, privileges, or prerogatives of the crown, if the conditions are such as entitle the respondents to resort to this form of procedure. if this act and the amending acts prior to 1914 had stood alone it would have been no answer to say that the statutory conditions were inconvenient or unduly cumbrous to meet the exigency ..... land, construct military roads thereon, remove any trees, hedges or fences therefrom; take possession of any buildings or other property, including works for the supply of gas, electricity or water, or any sources of water supply; take such steps as may be necessary for placing any buildings or structures in a state of defence; cause any ..... of the ordnance department and the vesting and purchase of lands and hereditaments for those services, and for the defence and security of the realm. this act has been subsequently amended, but not on any subject material to this appeal, prior to 1914. sect. 16 empowers the principal officers of her majesty's ordnance to treat .....

Ohio Valley Water Co. Vs. Ben Avon Borough

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the company appealed to the superior court, contending that the property had been undervalued and that the rates were therefore confiscatory in violation of the fourteenth amendment. that court, passing upon the weight of the evidence introduced before the commission, found that larger amounts should have been allowed for several items which entered ..... proceeding where the commission's order may be challenged because confiscatory. thus far, plaintiff in error has not succeeded in obtaining the review for which the fourteenth amendment requires the state to provide. page 253 u. s. 290 article vi, public service company law of pennsylvania: "sec. 31. no injunction shall issue modifying ..... be affirmed. mr. justice holmes and mr. justice clarke concur in this dissent. * in napa valley electric co. v. railway commissioners, 251 u. s. 366 , this court had before it in 67 of the public utilities act of california (st. extra sess.1911, p. 55) a procedure substantially similar to that provided by .....

San Antonio Vs. San Antonio Pub. Svc. Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 5,000 inhabitants, by vote of their electors, to amend their charters or adopt new ones, subject to the limitation that the charters should not contain any provision inconsistent with the constitution or general laws of the state. in the meantime, the two companies, gas and electric, dealt with in the ordinance of 1899 were consolidated and ..... that ordinance and from the action taken at the time and in furtherance of the consolidation. it further asserted an estoppel to deny the contract arising from various acts of the city and the corporation or its predecessors from the time of the ordinance in 1899 to the bringing of the suit 1918. moreover, disputing the ..... from the date of the final decision in the altgelt case up to the time when the contention as to confiscation resulting from the changed conditions arose, the acts and dealings of the parties unmistakably indicated the purpose to exert the authority derived from the power to regulate, to the exclusion of the limitations resulting from .....

Newberry Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... a new trial. the constitutional question is so important that it deserves treatment at length. page 256 u. s. 276 the federal corrupt practices act (act of june 25, 1910, c. 392, 36 stat. 822, amended by act of august 19, 1911, c. 33, 37 stat. 25, 28) limits the amount of money that may be given, contributed, expended, ..... structure of the government -- be so narrowly construed? it is said primaries were unknown when the constitution was adopted. so were the steam railway and the electric telegraph. but the authority of congress to regulate commerce among the several states was extended over these instrumentalities, because it was recognized that the manner of conducting ..... to provide for the election of senators by popular vote, and made the general nominating state primary law applicable to that condition (act no. 156, mich. acts of 1915), and, by virtue of the amendment, the act of congress, and the state law just stated, the primary with which we are concerned in this case was held in .....

Springfield Gas and Elec. Co. Vs. Springfield

Court : US Supreme Court

..... subject to the approval of the state public utilities commission. the plaintiff contends that the exception of municipal corporations from the public utilities act is void under the fourteenth amendment, and that the act should be enforced as if the exception were not there. it might perhaps be a sufficient answer to the plaintiff's case that ..... think it proper to follow the same course, and to deal with the constitutional question raised. the plaintiff's argument, shortly stated, is that, in selling electricity, the city stands like any other party engaged in a commercial enterprise, and that to leave it free in the matter of charges while the plaintiff is subject ..... november 7, 1921 257 u.s. 66 error o the supreme court of the state of illinois syllabus state legislation permitting a city owning an electric plant to sell electricity to private consumers and fix the rates by ordinance or resolution of the city council while subjecting a competing private corporation to regulation of its rates .....

Kern River Co. Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 14, 1896, c. 179, 29 stat. 120, made express provision for rights of way through the public lands and forest reservations for the purpose of developing electric power, but this act differed from the one of 1891 in several respects, the one of most significance being that what the beneficiary was to receive was a revocable permit or license ..... , through the approval by the secretary of the interior of an original map of the canal on april 14, 1899, and of an amended map on november 27, 1905. the purpose of the amended map was to conform the right of way to intervening changes in the line of the canal. the secretary's approval, in both instances ..... amount of water available for irrigation, as subsidiary to the main purpose of irrigation, the act of 1891 would be much more satisfactory in its operation, and the intention of the act as conferring a general benefit would be fully subserved." the bill was amended in accordance with his recommendation, and was enacted in that form. house report no. .....

Truax Vs. Corrigan

Court : US Supreme Court

..... for instance, 34 edw. 3, c. 9; the king v. journeymen tailors of cambridge, 8 modern, 10; wright, the law of criminal conspiracies. [ footnote 7 ] criminal law amendment act (1871), 34 & 35 vict. c. 32, 1, last paragraph. for the earlier law, see regina v. rowlands, 2 dem. 363. [ footnote 8 ] criminal law ..... v. st. paul building trades, 136 minn. 167; state v. van pelt, 136 n.c. 633; jetton-dekle lumber co. v. mather, 56 fla. 969; cohn & roth electric co. v. bricklayers union, 92 conn. 161. [ footnote 24 ] in some jurisdictions, the officers of the national union, not being employees, are regarded as outsiders, with no justification for ..... a subcommittee of senate committee on the judiciary, 62d cong.2d sess.; 63d congress, see debates on h.r. 15657 (the clayton act). [ footnote 40 ] 54th congress, house report no. 2471; 56th congress, house report no.1987, 2007; 57th congress, senate report no. 1650, house report no. 1622; 62d congress, house report no. 612; 63d congress, senate report .....

U.M. Chowdhury and Co. Vs. Jiban Krishna Ghose and Son

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1922Cal447,69Ind.Cas.995

..... b 659 : 93 l.t. 20 : 53 w.r. 534 : 10 com. cas. 265 : 21 t.l.r 429 and british westing-house electric and . v. underground electric railways company of london, ld. (1912) a.c. 673 : 8 l.j.k. b. 1132 : 107 l.t. 325 : 56 s.j. ..... to the respondents; this appears further from the fact that the learned judge remitted the awards in order that the ' arbitrator might amend his awards or make fresh awards embodying therein the rates of exchange prevailing at the time the bills in respect of the awards made ..... that, therefore the award was, upon the face of it, bad in point of law.24. in the other case british westinghouse electric and manufacturing co. ld v. underground electric railways company of london, ld. (1912) a.c. 673 : 8 l.j.k. b. 1132 : 107 l.t. ..... 325 : 56 s.j. 734 the arbitrator had acted upon the opinion of a divisional court which had been given upon a special case .....