City of Mount Pleasant v. Public Service Commission

The Michigan public service commission on April 9, 1954, granted the petition of Michigan Consolidated Gas Company and ordered a revision of gas rates in the city of Mt. Pleasant.

The city of Mt. Pleasant filed a petition for writs of prohibition or mandamus and an order to show cause was directed by this Court to the Michigan public service commission. The nature of the remedy sought confines this review solely to issues of law and plaintiff agrees with statements in the memorandum of the attorney general that:

“The plaintiff’s basic claim, asserted throughout its petition, rests upon ‘a valid…