Billings Utility Co. v. Public Service Commission
Montana Supreme Court
Appeals from District Court, Yellowstone County; Charles A. Taylor, Judge. Action by the Billings Utility Company against tbe Public Service Commission of Montana and another. From a judgment for defendants and an order denying a new trial, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeals from District Court, Yellowstone County; Charles A. Taylor, Judge. Action by the Billings Utility Company against tbe Public Service Commission of Montana and another. From a judgment for defendants and an order denying a new trial, plaintiff appeals. It is recognized that no rule for fixing the valuation of public utilities can be adopted which will give entirely satisfactory results because the element of future cost is involved,, and this of course is an unknowable quantity. The best we can do is to so approximate it that the possibility of loss shall be reduced to the lowest…
1Opinion of the Court
MR. COMMISSIONER JACKSON
prepared the opinion for the court.
On December 13, 1918, the Billings Utility Company, a Montana corporation, engaged in the public service of furnishing hot-water heat in the city of Billings, Montana, filed with the Public Service Commission its petition for an increased rate. A hearing was had on January 17, 1919, at which evidence in support of the company’s petition was introduced, and the protestant, Montana Realty Company, was also heard. Subsequently Report and Order No. 259, Public Service Commission of Montana, was filed, denying the increase. (12 Mont. R. R.…
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