Inland Steel Development Corp. v. Public Utilities Commission

Inland assails the commission’s order on the. basis of lack of jurisdiction from two fronts:(1) No section of the Ohio Revised Code empowers the commission to adjudicate controversies involving contract and property rights; and(2) the commission is without jurisdiction to adjudicate the same subject matter presently before the Court of Common Pleas and must dismiss that part of the appli*287cation filed with it that, relates to the pending lawsuit.

R. C. 4909.16 reads, in pertinent part:

“When the Public Utilities Commission deems it necessary to prevent injury to * * * the public * * * in case of…