Philadelphia & West Chester Traction Co. v. Public Service Commission

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

We decided in Lehigh Valley Transit Co. v. P. S. C., 78 Pa. Superior Ct. 105, that the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, the intervening appellee, a traction motor company, operating a system of street passenger railways, was subject to the supervision and regulation of the Public Service Commission as to the rates to be charged with respect to operations voluntarily engaged in by authority of law, but not required as a part of its charter obligations. We are now called upon to decide whether the commission has jurisdiction over the service rendered under such…