Pennsylvania Gas Co. v. Public Service Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
,ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW TORE. The case is stated in the opinion. The State has no power to regulate the rates in question, for such action necessarily imposes a direct burden and restraint upon interstate commerce. The State in effect proposes to meet the plaintiff in error at the state line and to deny it freedom to import for sale a legitimate commodity of commerce except at a price to be fixed by the State.
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,ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW TORE. The case is stated in the opinion. The State has no power to regulate the rates in question, for such action necessarily imposes a direct burden and restraint upon interstate commerce. The State in effect proposes to meet the plaintiff in error at the state line and to deny it freedom to import for sale a legitimate commodity of commerce except at a price to be fixed by the State. Nay more, the State apparently proposes not only to restrict the right of sale, but to compel the plaintiff in error to continue to import its Pennsylvania…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
This writ of error brings before us for consideration the question whether the Public Service Commission of the State of New York has the power to regulate rates at which natural gas shall be furnished by the Pennsylvania Gas Company, plaintiff in error, to. consumers in the city of Jamestown in the State of New York. The Court of Appeals of New York (225 N. Y. 397) held that the Commission had such authority.
The statute of the State of New York, § 65, Public Service Commission Law, Laws 1910, c. 480, provides: “Every gas corporation, every electrical corporation and every municipality shall…
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