...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...

...requiring the real value of the property nnd the fair value in themselves of the services renSered to be taken into consideration. What the company is...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...

...however, defective in not requiring the real value of the property and the fair value in them•elvea > M ]E Y S ^ "7eކ! & j 9 ;/ 6 - n^ # y~ m mK~c... Y &d, ~`_ r r o ; A @ ʛ B ? @ <q, !8")L ْ publia The property may have cost more than It ought to have cost, and its outstanding bonds for money...

...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....

...-and a fair net profit. The court said, at page 757, 174 US, page 811, 19 Sup. Ct., 43 L. Ed. 1154: "Undoubtedly, all these matters ought to be taken...property at the time it is being used for the public." In Covington & Lexington Turnpike Road Co. v. Sanford, 164 US 578, 17 Sup. Ct. 198, 41 L. Ed. 560,...

...Land Co. v. 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...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...

...Corporation Counsel [Frederic C. Rupp of counsel], for the respondent City of Buffalo. COCHRANE, J.: " What the company is entitled to demand, in order that...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,...

...no longer is open to dispute that under the Constitution ' what the company is entitled to demand i" order that it may have just compensation, is a fair...property at the time it is being used for the public.'" In Smyth v. Ames (169 0. S. 546) the opinion reads : " "We hold, however, that the basis of all calculations...