City of Thornton v. Public Utilities Commission

My conviction that the Commission has on its own motion taken unto itself a jurisdiction in certain areas where it has no authority to adjudicate forbids concurrence with the majority of this Court. I would tell, the *437Commission that its self-started and self-appointed assumption of jurisdiction in these areas is an arrogation of authority which compels making the writ absolute.

That the Commission has instituted a bootstrap proceeding becomes obvious upon consideration of the record before us. If its action then is beyond the pale of its power and involves the exercise of judicial or…