Kreutzer v. Illinois Commerce Commission

Petitioners, Frances Kreutzer, Marie Caranci, William Byrne, and Linda Byrne, appeal from the order of the Illinois Commerce Commission (Commission) granting a certificate of public convenience and necessity to respondent Commonwealth Edison Co. (ComEd) for the construction of a new electrical transmission line in McHenry and Kane Counties. The line the Commission authorized ComEd to construct would cross petitioners’ property. We agree with petitioners that the evidence before the Commission does not demonstrate the need for the amount of petitioner’s property that the Commission’s order…