State Ex Rel. Puget Etc. Co. v. Dept. of P.W.

For consideration in this court, three appeals, each in a separate case and from a separate judgment, have been consolidated and are briefed, argued and submitted as a single cause, the purpose being to review in one proceeding three judgments of the superior court, each reversing an order made by the department of public works.

The proceedings were instituted by the department on its own motion in the early part of the year 1933, the complaint charging excessive and improper rates and practices in the matter of furnishing electric power service to farmers and orchardists for irrigation and…