Public Util. Comm'n of Ohio v. United Fuel Gas Co.

Mu. Justice Black

dissenting, with whom

Mu. Justice Douglas and Mr. Justice Murphy concur.

As a result of this decision, delays incident to obtaining a federal injunction have made wholly futile the diligent efforts of the State of Ohio to fix reasonable gas rates for *471the people of Portsmouth, Ohio.1 I cannot agree with the suggestion implied here that this results from any cause other than the unwarranted interposition by courts into the business of rate making. Cf. McCart v. Indianapolis Water Co., 302 U. S. 419, 435. Here eight years after the Ohio Public Utilities Commission made United a…