Pichotta v. City of Skagway

FOLTA, District Judge.

This is an action brought by plaintiff who, in the name of the Skagway Public Service Company, operates a public utility consisting of the light and power plant and distribution system leased from the Home Power Company, to enjoin the City of Skagway from enforcing an ordinance, effective October 1, 1947, on the ground that the rates fixed are unfair and unreasonable under local law and confiscatory under the Constitution of the United States.

Pending determination of the suit the defendant was restrained from enforcing the ordinance and the excess paid by consumers over…