Foltz v. Public Service Commission
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 23, March T., 1919, by Charles S. Foltz, Complainant, from order of the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania, Complaint Docket No. 2284, in the case of Charles S. Foltz v. Public Service Commission, on appeal, and Conestoga Traction Company.
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Appeal, No. 23, March T., 1919, by Charles S. Foltz, Complainant, from order of the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania, Complaint Docket No. 2284, in the case of Charles S. Foltz v. Public Service Commission, on appeal, and Conestoga Traction Company. From the record it appeared that the Conestoga Traction Company, as a public service company engaged in the transportation of persons and property, filed a schedule of rates with the Public Service Commission providing for an increase of fares. The complainant within thirty days entered a complaint with the Public Service Commission…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Williams, J.,
Appellant filed a complaint with the Public Service Commission, alleging that the Conestoga Traction Company proposed to raise its rate of fare from five cents to six cents in the City of Lancaster; that this would be unjust, excessive, unnecessary and illegal, and in violation of the franchise of the said railway company, and of the *27city ordinance, approved March 3, 1887, and other franchise ordinances to the same traction company, providing that the rate of fare in Lancaster should not be more than five cents.
The commission found that the whole system comprises 164…
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