Mill Creek Coal & Coke Co. v. Public Service Commission
West Virginia Supreme Court
Petition by the Mill Creek Coal & Coke Company and ^others for suspension of an order of the Public Service Commission directing the continuance of a former increase of 20 per cent, in the existing rates of the Appalachian Power Company, and allowing a further increase of the same amount.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge :
The questions presented upon this appeal originated in an application made by the Appalachian Power Company, a Virginia corporation doing business in this state as well as in 'Virginia, to the Public Service Commission of West Virginia *665lor an increase of 30% in tbe rates in force December 31, 1918. Thirteen months prior to that date the Commission had ordered an increase of 20% in the rates theretofore existing, pursuant to an agreement between the power company and its customers and as an emergency measure made necessary by the war, though many of such customers, including…
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