Suburban Utility Corp. v. Public Utility Commission

BARROW, Justice.

This is a direct appeal by Suburban Utility Corporation, a small two shareholder water utility serving six unincorporated areas in Harris County, from a district court judgment sustaining a rate and plant improvement order rendered by the Public Utility Commission (PUC). We hold the PUC’s rate order is not supported by substantial evidence in the record. The district court judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded to the PUC for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

In October, 1976, the PUC instituted proceedings to determine the propriety of the rates being…