West Ohio Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission

The Gas Company complains generally that the Commission, in its process of fixing the rate herein, has not followed the procedural requirements, and has thereby denied to it due process of law, and that the rate fixéd by the Commission is unreasonable and unlawful.

We will consider the specific questions raised in the Lima case in inverse order.

The valuation fixed by the Commission on September 15, 1931, for property used and useful in the city of Lima, as of a date certain, to wit, March 31, 1928, the effective date of the rate ordinance passed by the city, was in the amount of $1,901,696.…