In re Central Vermont Public Service Corp.

This is an appeal by the State Public Service Department from an order of the Public Service Board granting appellee Central Vermont Public Service Corporation, a Vermont utility, a temporary rate increase pending a final order of the Board in response to the utility’s petition for a twenty-five percent permanent rate increase.

It is unnecessary to reach the merits of this appeal. We are confronted at the threshold with a motion by the utility to dismiss which raises for consideration the issue of finality. Neither party here questions the fact that the Board has not yet issued a final order;…