ARIZONA CORPORATION COM'N v. Arizona Water Co.

STRUCKMEYER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court vacating a decision of the Arizona Corporation Commission. The Court of Appeals affirmed, 21 Ariz.App. 107, 516 P.2d 49 (1973). We accepted review. Opinion of the Court of Appeals vacated, and judgment of the Superior Court affirmed.

For some time prior to the commencement of the controversy herein, the Arizona Water Company distributed domestic water in the Heber-Overgaard area, a sparsely settled region near the Mogollon Rim. R. J. Fernandez, doing business under the name of Holiday Forest Water Company proposed to…