The Pennsylvania Corporation Reporter, Volume 6

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Pennsylvania Corporation Reporter., 1919
 

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Página 279 - No law shall be passed by the legislature granting the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any city, town or village, or upon any public highway, without first acquiring the consent of the local authorities having control of the street or highway proposed to be occupied by such street railroad.
Página 276 - It is insisted, however, that the owner of property is entitled to a reasonable compensation for its use, even though it be clothed with a public interest, and that what is reasonable is a judicial and not a legislative question.
Página 250 - ... the authority to make it, must be closely scrutinized. No other body than the supreme legislature (in this case, the legislature of the state) has the authority to make such a surrender, unless the authority is clearly delegated to it by the supreme legislature. The general powers of a municipality or of any other political subdivision of the state are not sufficient. Specific authority for that purpose is required.
Página 72 - The value of the plant and business is an indivisible gross amount. It is not obtained by adding up a number of separate items, but by taking a comprehensive view of each and all of the elements of property, tangible and intangible, including property rights, and considering them all not as a separate thing, but as inseparable parts of one harmonious entity and exercising the judgment as to the value of that entity. In this way the going value goes into the final result, but it would be difficult...
Página 275 - No street passenger railway shall be constructed within the limits of any city, borough or township, without the consent of its local authorities.
Página 312 - The exercise of the right of eminent domain shall never be abridged or so construed as to prevent the General Assembly from taking the property and franchises of incorporated companies, and subjecting them to public use, the same as the property of individuals...
Página 189 - Section 21. That every corporation, joint-stock association, limited partnership and company whatsoever from which a report is required under the twentieth section hereof, shall be subject to and pay into the treasury of the commonwealth annually a tax at the rate of five mills upon each dollar of the actual value of its whole capital stock of all kinds, including common, special and preferred...
Página 182 - In no other way can a party maintain its rights or make its defense. In no other way can it test the sufficiency of the facts to support the finding; for otherwise, even though it appeared that the order was without evidence, the manifest deficiency could always be explained on the theory that the Commission had before it extraneous, unknown but presumptively sufficient information to support the finding.
Página 277 - The fixing of rates which may be charged by public service corporations, of the character here involved, is a legislative function of the state ; and while the right to make contracts which shall prevent the state during a given period from exercising this important power has been recognized and approved by judicial decisions, it has been...
Página 251 - But for the very reason that such a contract has the effect of extinguishing pro tanto an undoubted power of government, both its existence and the authority to make it must clearly and unmistakably appear, and all doubts must be resolved in favor of the continuance of the power.

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