Legal Opinion
Edison Light & Power Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 16, 1940No. 9893PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.
These petitions come at the end of protracted litigation which began with an investigation by the Public Utilities Commission (the Public Service Commission) of Pennsylvania to determine the reasonableness of rates for electric power charged by the Edison Light and Power Company of York, Pennsylvania, and finally reached the Supreme Court of the United States on injunction proceedings in the Federal Courts to restrain an order of the Commission reducing the rates. The petitions are presented by a small group of consumers, under the name of Utility Consumers League…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Sprague v. Ticonic National BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Trustees v. GreenoughSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Driscoll v. Edison Light & Power Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Hempstead v. Meadville Theological SchoolSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
- Eckford v. Borough of AtlantaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1931
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,150 Oliver R. Grace v. Daniel K. LudwigCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
- Powell v. Pennsylvania RailroadDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1958
- Edison Light & Power Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1941
- King v. City of CovingtonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1942