Big Horn Rural Electric Co. v. Pacific Power & Light Co.

This is an appeal by Big Horn Rural Electric Company from a judgment entered by the District Court of Laramie County, Wyoming, confirming an order of the Public Service Commission of Wyoming granting to Pacific Power & Light Company a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing it to furnish, as a public utility, electrical service in an area embracing some 255 square miles located in the northeastern part of Big Horn County, Wyoming.

The record reveals that the area is bordered on the north by the Wyoming-Montana boundary line; on the east by the Big Horn-Sheridan county line;…