Kansas City Railways Co. v. Public Service Commission
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cole Circuit Court.- — No». J. O'. Slate, Judge. (1) The Public' Service Commission was without authority to make an order requiring this appellant to pay a fee for authorizing an issue of bonds to take up other bonds. Laws 1913, sec. 21, p. 567. (2) This appellant’s obligations were not limited to those which it primarily created, but included those which it assumed.
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Appeal from Cole Circuit Court.- — No». J. O'. Slate, Judge. (1) The Public' Service Commission was without authority to make an order requiring this appellant to pay a fee for authorizing an issue of bonds to take up other bonds. Laws 1913, sec. 21, p. 567. (2) This appellant’s obligations were not limited to those which it primarily created, but included those which it assumed. Cone v. Wood, 108 Iowa, 266. (3) Statutes generally should be so construed as to give words and phrases their plain and ordinary and usual meaning. R. S. 1909, sec. 8057. (4) A refunding of a debt is merely' a…
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, C.
The' appellant began this proceeding in the circuit court of Cole County to review on certiorari an order of the Public Service Commission, whereby the appellant was required to pay fees to the commission amounting to nearly ten thousand dollars, for services rendered appellant by the Commission in *176connection with a bond issue of about twenty-eight million dollars. The circuit Court affirmed the order of the Commission and from that judgment appeal is taken.
The fees charged, to which the appellant objects, were authorized, as claimed by respondent, by Section 21 of the Public Service…
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