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Public Utilities-Street Railway Regulation By State Commission In Home Rule City-Permission To Withdraw From Service
Michigan Law Review
A street railway company, located in a city with a home rule charter adopted in accordance with the state constitution, petitioned the state railway commission and was granted authority to curtail its transportation by buses. The company had been in bad financial condition during recent years; the number of passengers carried had been substantially decreasing, and the company was not able to pay full interest on bonded debt. Upon the insistence of the city, the company had put bus lines in operation several years earlier and these had continually been operating at a deficit. Upon appeal, the court held that …
The Johnson Amendment To The Judicial Code, Edwin C. Goddard
The Johnson Amendment To The Judicial Code, Edwin C. Goddard
Michigan Law Review
The so-called Johnson bill amending the Judicial Code was passed by Congress and signed by the President on May 14, 1934. The bill was the result of long agitation against the alleged pernicious interference by United States District Courts with rate regulations of the state utility commissions and the state courts. It was charged that the removal of cases from state to federal tribunals was burdening the District Courts and, what was far more serious, was favoring the public utilities and preventing their proper state regulation by submitting controversies to judges having life tenure and who were out of touch …
Public Utilities-Rate Base-Allowance For Depreciation
Public Utilities-Rate Base-Allowance For Depreciation
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff toll bridge company appealed from an order of the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission which set a value for rate-making purposes on their bridge property, constructed in 1924-25, identical to the original valuation order of 1926, for the rate-base as of February 2, 1932. The order allowed a depreciation deduction annually which, with 4 per cent simple interest, would amount to enough to replace the bridge at the end of its estimated period of usefulness. The company claimed the order was confiscatory, as based solely on original cost, without taking into account current cost of reproduction; and that interest should …
The Evolution And Devolution Of Public Utility Law, Edwin C. Goddard
The Evolution And Devolution Of Public Utility Law, Edwin C. Goddard
Michigan Law Review
As long ago as 1873, and very likely even earlier, courts were speaking of the public utility in the sense of the public convenience or advantage, a New Jersey court saying, "these prerogatives (of railway corporations) are grants from the government, and public utility is the consideration for them." This has been often quoted by other courts, notably by your Judge Atherton in the famous case of Scofield v. Railway in 1885. But the term "public utility'' as applied to plants or corporations rendering a public service is very new. It is not to be found in the 1904 edition …
Constitutional Law-Right To Competition
Constitutional Law-Right To Competition
Michigan Law Review
The appellee was engaged in the business of selling natural gas. A rival utility entered the field duplicating the plant and facilities of the appellee and established with the consent of the Public Service Commission a rate lower than the prevailing rate charged by the appellee. In an attempt to retain its customers against the lower prices of its competitor the appellee lowered its rate several times. The appellants finally ordered the appellee to submit evidence as to the reasonableness of its rates. Upon investigation the Public Service Commission found that the business in the territory was capable of supporting …
The Municipality As A Unit In Ratemaking And Confiscation Cases, Robert D. Armstrong
The Municipality As A Unit In Ratemaking And Confiscation Cases, Robert D. Armstrong
Michigan Law Review
The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the so-called Martinsville case has been interpreted by some critics as laying down a "municipal unit doctrine" of rate making, denying to a system utility the right to earn from its entire operations a fair return on the value of its entire property, and substituting therefor a "bundle of rights" to earn in each "municipality" served a fair return on the value of the property used and useful therefor.
Trade Restraints - Inducing Breach Of Contract
Trade Restraints - Inducing Breach Of Contract
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff had "exclusive requirement" contracts with 90% of the users of electricity in various communities in Texas. Defendant was in the business of selling municipal electric plants to communities under a plan whereby, on assurance that enough users would enter into exclusive contracts to make the plant a success, the defendant agreed to look for payment to the revenue of the plant only. Installation of a municipal plant would, therefore, necessitate breaches of the "exclusive requirement" contracts on the part of some of plaintiff's customers. Held, that plaintiff was not entitled to an. injunction restraining defendant from inducing plaintiff's …