PUBLIC UTILITIES-VALUATION-THE RATE BASE

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Abstract

The Board of Public Utility Commissioners of New Jersey appealed from a decree entered in the district court enjoining the enforcement of their order regulating the rates of the Elizabethtown Water Co. The district court found that, upon its own determination as to valuation, the rates prescribed were confiscatory and violative of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Held, the basis of valuation in determining the rate base is present value. After reviewing the evidence, the court was of the opinion that the utility's evidence as to valuation was the more satisfactory, and that. the rates prescribed were confiscatory as to that valuation. Public Utility Commissioners of New Jersey v. Elizabethtown Water Co., 43 F.(2d) 478.

Recommended Citation

PUBLIC UTILITIES-VALUATION-THE RATE BASE, 29 Mich. L. Rev. 643 (1931).
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