Legal Opinion

In Re Applications to Fix Streetcar Rates of Fare

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided May 13, 1949No. Nos. 34,879, 34,888PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

1 Reported in 87 N.W.2d 533. These appeals are from orders denying motions of the city-appellants to vacate orders of the railroad and warehouse commission fixing emergency or temporary rates of fare to be charged by the street railway company-respondents and to stay the rate orders pending these appeals.

Four questions are presented for decision, viz.:(1) Whether an exercise by the commission of its power under M.S.A. 220.13 to find the value of a street railway property and to fix a rate of fare based thereon exhausts its power to fix emergency or temporary rates of fare pending a…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Dobbins v. Los AngelesSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
  2. Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1930
  3. C. C. Clark and Others v. . E. R. Stanley and OthersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1872
  4. Town of East Hartford v. HartFord Bridge Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1851
  5. State v. Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1939

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Minneapolis Street Railway Co. v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1957
  2. Western States Utilities Co. v. City of WasecaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1954
  3. Northern States Power Co. v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1959
  4. St. Paul City Railway Co. v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1954
  5. St. Paul City Railway Co. v. City of St. PaulSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1951

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