City of Thornton v. Public Utilities Commission

This is an original proceeding filed by the City of Thornton seeking a writ of prohibition to halt certain proceedings before the Public Utilities Commission.

The parties will be referred to as follows: The petitioner as Thornton; the respondent Public Utilities Commission and the individual members thereof as the Commission. Others interested are: Northwest Utilities Company, to whom we will refer as Northwest; certain water users who were permitted to intervene and to whom we will refer as Intervenors.

*433Thornton’s petition, consisting mostly of the recital of the history of its acquisition of…