McCart v. Indianapolis Water Co.

This suit was originally brought by the Indianapolis Water Company to restrain the enforcement of an order of the Public Service Commission of Indiana fixing a temporary schedule of rates pending the Commission’s investigation. The District Court of three judges (28 U. S. C. 380) denied an interlocutory injunction and the temporary rates became effective. The Commission on *420December 30, 1932, adopted a different and permanent schedule of rates to be effective January 1, 1933. The Company then filed an amended and supplemental bill assailing those rates as confiscatory and invoking the…