...in the case of Wilcox v. Consolidated Gas Company (212 US 19, 41, 52) : "There must be a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public. . . . And we concur with the court below in holding that the value of the property is to be determined...

...their enforcement before they came into actual operation. In order to determine the rate of return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public, it, of course, becomes necessary to ascertain what that value is. A very great amount of evidence was...

...[3] It would seem clear from the decisions that the most material question in such cases is that of the reasonable value of the property " at the time it is being used for the public " — that is to say, the time at which the question arises — it being upon the reasonable valution...

...what the company ia entitled to demand in order that it may have just compensation is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used by the public. Relying upon these cases, the Burlington's full position is that it is immaterial how...

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...due to the increased value in commodities handled. ARGUMENT. A carrier is entitled to a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is used for the public, and in fixing this value account should be taken of both the physical and intangible...

...streets of the city and lay down mains and use them to supply gas, subject to the legislative right to so regulate the price for the gas as to permit not more...their creation, down to the consolidation in 1884, the?e companies had been free from legislative regulation upon the amount of the rates to be charged...

...streets of the city and lay down mains and use them to supply gas, subject to the legislative right to so regulate the price for the gas as to permit not more...property at the time it is being used for the public." (Same, 197.) "What has been said herein regarding the value of the franchises in this case has been...

...streets of the city and lay down mains and use them to supply gas, subject to the legislative right to so regulate the price for the gas as to permit not more...business), upon the reasonable value of the property at the tune it is being used for the public. " The evidence shows that from their creation, down to the consolidation...

...'What the company is entitled to demand in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public. The property may have cost more than it ought to have cost, and its outstanding bonds for money borrowed...