Pennsylvania Utilities Co. v. Public Service Commission
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 5, March T., 1918, by plaintiff from order of Public Service Commission, Complaint Docket No. 1147, dismissing-complaint in case of Pennsylvania Utilities Company v. Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Lehigh Navigation Electric Company.
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Appeal, No. 5, March T., 1918, by plaintiff from order of Public Service Commission, Complaint Docket No. 1147, dismissing-complaint in case of Pennsylvania Utilities Company v. Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Lehigh Navigation Electric Company. Complaint of the Pennsylvania Utilities Company against the Lehigh Navigation Electric Company for attempting to construct its facilities in Palmer Township, Northampton County, without having obtained from the Public Service Commission a certificate of public convenience. From the record it appeared that on April…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Kephart, J.,
The question presented by this and a number of other appeals now before the court is of considerable importance to utility companies in the Commonwealth. After the decision in the case of Bly v. White Deer Mt. Water Company, 197 Pa. 80, there was a great effort by certain utilities to secure charters for the municipal districts they deemed necessary to their present and future plan of development. These concerns found it impossible, be*615cause of the great economic waste, to construct separate operating plants in each of the districts for which charters were secured. The…
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- Bly v. White Deer Mountain Water Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
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