...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...

...Constitution 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 ;" citing San Diego Land & Town Co. v. National City, 174 US 739, 757, 19 Sup. Ct. 804, 43 L. Ed. 1154...

...consideration. What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is ch other provisions, agreements, or 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....

...consideration. 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." In Covington & Lexington Turnpike Road Co. v. Sanford, 164 US 578, 17 Sup. Ct. 198, 41 L. Ed. 560,...

...that case: "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 by the public. The property may have cost more than it ought to have cost, and its outstanding bonds...

...compensation as, under the circumstances is just both to the owner and to 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. ' ' Numerous other authorities might be cited sustaining this same view, but from the authorities cited...