Public Utilities Commission v. Natatorium Co.

This is an appeal from an order of the Public Utilities Commission, in which the commission held that the Natatorium Company was a public utility, as to its sale of the use of hot water to certain inhabitants of Boise City for heating and domestic purposes.

From the record it appears that in 1890, EL B. Eastman, Timothy Regan, W. H. Ridenbaugh and J. W. Cunningham acquired an option to purchase the SE. % of the SE. 14 of the SW.14 of section 12, T. 3 N., R. 2 E., B. M., in Ada county, adjoining Boise City on the east, from Robert Wilson, and, due to certain surface indications, began…