Federal Mining & Smelting Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
Idaho Supreme Court
Original proceeding in this court for a writ of review to determine the validity of an order of the Public Utilities Commission refusing to require the Washington Water Power Company to permit the plaintiff to examine all of its.records, files and papers.
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Original proceeding in this court for a writ of review to determine the validity of an order of the Public Utilities Commission refusing to require the Washington Water Power Company to permit the plaintiff to examine all of its.records, files and papers. The opinion of the commission, as to privacy of the power company’s books and as to a fishing examination, is based on rules that would be applicable in a suit between private individuals or private corporations and which were established before Munn v. Illinois (1877), 94 U. S. 113, 24 L. ed. 77, in which it was first established that any…
1Opinion
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING.
SULLIVAN, C. J.
A petition for rehearing has been filed in this case, and it is contended that in our order affirming the decision of the Public Utilities Commission we overlooked the fact that the plaintiff had made certain specific demands for the examination of particular records, naming them, among which were (1) the balance sheets for the calendar years 1904H913, inclusive, as shown by the affidavit of Beukers (see p. 36 of record); (2) the ledgers and journals of the power company covering the entire existence of that company; (3) the minute-books of the…
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- New York Edison Co. v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
- United Electric Light & Power Co. v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909