City of Toledo v. Public Utilities Commission

By the Court.

Adhering’ to former pronouncements, this court in the first paragraph of the syllabus in Village of New Bremen v. Public Utilities Commission, 103 Ohio St., 23, 132 N. E., 162, declared: “The Public Utilities Commission is an administrative board and has only such authority as the statute creating it has conferred.”

Section 501-2, General Code, so far as applicable in this controversy, reads:

“No railroad as defined in Section 501 of the General Code, operating any railroad in the state of Ohio, and no public utility as defined in Section 611-2® of the General Code furnishing…