Consumers Sanitary Coffee & Butter Stores v. Commerce Commission Ex Rel. Commonwealth Edison Co.

The appellee, the Consumers Sanitary Coffee and Butter Stores, filed a complaint with the Illinois Commerce Commission attacking a rate of the appellant, the Commonwealth Edison Company, which rate is applicable only to small commercial light and power users and is known as rate “A2.” The grounds of the complaint are, (1) that the rate provides for the furnishing of lamp service (electric light bulbs) as well as electric current under a single charge, and the Public Utilities act does not vest the Commerce Commission with power to regulate charges for articles of merchandise; (2) that the…