 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1901 - 868 pages
...conclusive evidence of the reasonableness of that rate; but when a railway company advances a rate which has been for some time in force, the fact of its continuance...tends to show the unreasonableness of the advance; and the force of this admission becomes great in view of the general decline in the average of railway... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1904 - 454 pages
...evidence of the reasonableness of that rate ; but when a railway company advances a rate which has been for some time in force, the fact of its continuance...tends to show the unreasonableness of the advance; and the force of this admission becomes great in view of the general decline in the average of railway... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1905 - 220 pages
...remunerative to the defendant carriers. Held: 14. That when a railroad company advances a rate which has been for some time in force, the fact of its continuance...rates in effect for long periods prior to the advance are shown to have been profitable to the defendant carriers. 15. That the test of the reasonableness... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1905 - 822 pages
...remunerative to the defendant carriers. Held: — 1. That when a railroad company advances a rate which has been for some time in force, the fact of its continuance...rates in effect for long periods prior to the advance are shown to have been profitable to thedefendant carriers. 2. That the test of the reasonableness... | |
 | Iowa State Commerce Commission - Railroads - 1905 - 460 pages
...remunerative to the defendant carriers. Held: 1. That when a railroad company advances at a rate which has been for some time In force, the fact of its continuance...rates in effect for long periods prior to the advance are shown to have been profitable to the defendant carriers. 2. That the test of the reasonableness... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1905 - 812 pages
...result in a constant increase of net earnings. Id. 8. When a railroad company advances a rate which has been for some time in force, the fact of its continuance...tends to show the unreasonableness of the advance. Central Yellow I'ine Asso. v. Illinois CR Co. 505. 9. The rates in effect for long periods prior to... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale, Bruce Wyman - Interstate commerce - 1906 - 1402 pages
...evidence of the reasonableness of that rate ; but when a railway company advances a rate which has been for some time in force, the fact of its continuance...tends to show the unreasonableness of the advance." 2 § 664. No presumption from continuance of classification under order of commission. Where, however,... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - Iowa - 1906 - 1222 pages
...defendant carriers. Held: 1. That when a railroad company advances at a rate which has been for sometime In force, the fact of Its continuance Is In the nature of an admission against that '»трапу which tends to show the unreasonableness of the advance; and In this case the rates In... | |
 | William Mills Ivins, Herbert Delavan Mason - Interstate commerce - 1908 - 1242 pages
...R. Co., 12 Inters. Com. R. 149. When a railway company advances a rate which has for some time been in force, the fact of its continuance is in the nature...tends to show the unreasonableness of the advance.— Central YP Assn. v. III. Cent. R. Co., 10 Inters. Com. R 505. The presumption that rates long maintained... | |
 | Edward Beauchamp Peirce, United States. Courts - Interstate commerce - 1908 - 1232 pages
...conclusive evidence that such rate is reasonable, but when a railway company advances a rate which has been for some time in force, the fact of its continuance is in the nature of an admission against the company, which tends to show the unreasonableness of the advance. — Holmes & Co. v. Southern... | |
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The continuance of a given rate is not conclusive evidence of the reasonableness of that rate ; but when a railway company advances a rate which has been for some time in force, the fact of its continuance is in the nature of an admission against that... 
