...such compensation as under the circumstances is just both to the owner and the public. There must be a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public." A Trial of Three Years Should Be Sufficient. "The case must be a clear one before the courts ought...

...life." In Willcox v. Consolidated Gas Co. 212 US 19, (29 Sup. Ct. 192,) it was held that there must be a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public ; that such a value was largely a matter of opinion ; and that, added to this indefinite basis, is...

...fair value in themselves of the services renSered to be taken into consideration. What the company is entitled to demand In order that It may have Just...fair return upon the reasonable value of the property nt the time It Is being used for the public. The property may have cost more than it ought to have...

...fair value in them•elvea of the services rendered to be taken into consideration. What the company contains the following stipulation and condition:...conditions as may be indorsed hereon or added hereto, an publia The property may have cost more than It ought to have cost, and its outstanding bonds for money...

...418), that what the company was entitled to demand in order that it might have just compensation was a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it was being used for the public. The appellants in that case contended that in fixing what were just...

...other person who may purchase the franchise at the sale made pursuant to such ordinance, more than a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used. It is the intention of this judgment to give to the City of Paducah the option of permitting the present...

...that its property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation, viz., a fair return on the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public benefit. [Ed. Note.— For other cases, see Eminent Domain, Cent Dig. §| 3-12; Dec. Dig. § 2.*] 6....

...elemental principles are the right of the company to derive a fair income, based upon the fair value of the property at the time it is being used for the public, taking into account the cost of maintenance or depreciation, and current operating expenses, and the...

...National City, 174 US 739, 755, 757. In the language of Mr. Justice Harlan in that case: "What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just...value of the property at the time it is being used by the public. The property may have cost more than it ought to have cost, and its outstanding bonds...

...[Frederic C. Rupp of counsel], for the respondent City of Buffalo. COCHRANE, J.: " What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just...property at the time it is being used for the public." (San Diego Land & Toicn Co. v. National City, 174 US 739, 7 57;. San Diego Land & Town Co. v. Jasper,...