Coalition for Safe Electric Power v. Public Utilities Commission

“The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is the representative of the people of the state of Ohio. It is the intermediary between the citizen-consumer on the one side and the public utility on the other. It is a creature of statute, having only such power as the General Assembly has seen fit to confer upon it * # Cleveland v. Pub. Util. Comm. (1934), 127 Ohio St. 432, 435-436.

Appellants herein have filed a complaint in writing against three public utilities, pursuant to R. C. 4905.26, alleging that a “service * * * proposed to be rendered, is in violation of law.” Upon examination of the…