...unreasonable, or otherwise improper, and alleges, in effect, that its present earnings in the city of Corona are not sufficient to yield a reasonable return on the value of its properties in that city after making due and proper allowance for operating expenses and depreciation....

...value of the system as of June 30, 1915, and the total annual amount to be paid by consumers in order to yield a reasonable return on the value of the property used in rendering such service, over and above the expenses of operation and a just allowance to cover depreciation....

...jurisdiction should be fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, so that they shall produce revenues sufficient to yield a reasonable return on the value of the property used in rendering service, after paying operating and maintenance expenses and providing for depreciation,...

...valuation of $688,655. The complainants properly contend that in determining whether a fare of 5 cents is sufficient to yield a reasonable return on the value of the property due allowance should be made for depreciation. As stated, the bridge has been standing since 1896 and...

...the Fourteenth Amendment, to the independent judgment of the court as to both law and facts. Id. 4. Rates which are not sufficient to yield a reasonable...at the time it is being used to render the service of the utility to the public, are unjust, unreasonable and confiscatory; and their enforcement deprives...

...not be sustained. "The just compensation safeguarded to the utility by the Fourteenth Amendment is a reasonable return on the value of the property used at the time that it is being used for the public service, and rates not sufficient to yield that return are confiscatory....

...Ry., 51 ICC 390. §6. Bona Fide Investment 386 387 perty properly made in determining -whether fare is sufficient to yield a reasonable return on the value of the property. City of East Liverpool, Ohio v. SEL & BVT Ry., 51 I. С. С. 563, 568. §8 Car-Mile or Train-Mile Revenue...

...Smith, 294 Fed. 103 (September 17, 1923), the court for the Western District of Arkansas. held that rates which are not sufficient to yield a reasonable...the time it is being used to render the service are confiscatory. In Colo. Power Co. v. Halderman, 295 Fed. 179 (January 4, 1924), the court for the District...

...West Virginia Public Service Commission et al., 262 US 679, at page 690, the Supreme Court said: " Rates which are not sufficient to yield a reasonable...to render the service are unjust, unreasonable and conflscatory, and their enforcement deprives the public utility company of its property in violation...

...court in favor of the complainant. Paragraph 4 of the syllabus in the Bluefied case is as follows : Rates which are not sufficient to yield a reasonable...at the time it is being used to render the service of the utility to the public, are unjust, unreasonable and confiscatory ; and theif enforcement deprives...