Borough of Platea v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is an appeal by the Borough of Platea (Borough) from an order of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (P.U.C.) which denied the Borough’s request for a rehearing and/or rescission or amendment of an order made by the P.U.C. on January 2, 1978. The controversy began when the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company (Railroad), who have been permitted to intervene in this appeal, informed the P.U.C. by telegram on January 7, 1972 that a sudden failure of the substructure supporting the deck and backwall of a bridge carrying Peach Street over the Railroad track in…