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Public Utilities - Municipal Corporations - Power Of Municipal Corporations To Regulate Public Utility Rates - Finality Of Such Regulation, John S. Pennell Nov 1940

Public Utilities - Municipal Corporations - Power Of Municipal Corporations To Regulate Public Utility Rates - Finality Of Such Regulation, John S. Pennell

Michigan Law Review

Since the decision in the case of Munn v. Illinois it has been settled that where property is devoted to a public use and is charged with a public interest, the state may prescribe reasonable rates for such public service. However, the question then arises as to the manner in which the state may prescribe these rates, through what agencies it may act, and the effect on the total picture of rate regulation within a state after there has been action by one of the proper agencies. The answers to these questions depend to a large extent upon the particular …


Public Utilities - Due Process - Validity Of Order Reducing Intrastate Telephone Rates To Conform To Interstate Rates, Michigan Law Review Jun 1940

Public Utilities - Due Process - Validity Of Order Reducing Intrastate Telephone Rates To Conform To Interstate Rates, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, by order of March 15, 1938, required appellant, the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, to reduce its intrastate toll rates for distances exceeding thirty-six miles so as to conform to rates charged by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for comparable distances for interstate services. After full hearing the commission based its order upon .findings that the interstate American Company offered at substantially lower rates the very same service, with identical facilities, accorded by its intrastate subsidiary, plus the additional service furnished by a connecting company, and that hence the higher intrastate rates constituted an …


Inconsistencies In Public Utility Depreciation: Deduction Of Depreciation For Rate Base Purposes, Robert D. Haun Feb 1940

Inconsistencies In Public Utility Depreciation: Deduction Of Depreciation For Rate Base Purposes, Robert D. Haun

Michigan Law Review

When considering depreciation for rate base purposes the courts and the commissions speak of accrued depreciation, existing depreciation, actual depreciation, complete depreciation, realized depreciation, incomplete depreciation, and observed depreciation. Accrued, existing and actual depreciation all have the same meaning.