Nez Perce Roller Mills v. Public Utilities Commission

This is an appeal from an order of the Public Utilities Commission refusing and rejecting a proposed schedule of rates for warehousing and storing cereal grains.

Appellants contend that the rates as fixed, 75# a ton, for handling and storage for one month, and 10# a month thereafter are confiscatory, and they introduced evidence in support of such contention.

The attorney general, on behalf of the commission and the grain growers, contends, on the other hand, that not only is the rate not confiscatory, but that it is sufficient under proper business methods to be remunerative, and even if not,…