UTILITIES BOARD, CITY OF LAMAR v. Southeast Colorado Power Association

Both the plaintiff in error and the defendant in error distribute and sell electrical power in the Lamar, Colorado area. The plaintiff in error (Lamar) holds a certificate from the Public Utilities Commission of Colorado to supply electrical service to an area which embraces a feed mill. However, the defendant in error (Association) claims to have supplied electrical service to this area for the past twenty years; and on October 18, 1965, the Commission granted the Association a certificate to supply service to the area in which the feed mill is located. This action was appealed by Lamar to…