Cascade County Consumers Ass'n v. Public Service Commission

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by the defendants and appellants, the Public Service Commission of Montana, and The Montana Power Company, from a judgment of the district court of the eighth judicial district, the Honorable Paul G. Hatfield, Judge presiding, which set aside and reversed an order of the appellant Commission as being unlawful and not based on sufficient evidence.

In April 1961, the appellant Montana Power Company, filed a petition with the Montana Public Service Commission for authority to increase rates and charges, with a price…