Van Wert Gaslight Co. v. Public Utilities Commission

This is an action to enjoin the enforcement of an

order of the Public Utilities Commission' of Ohio, entered on November 2, 1923, fixing the price of artificial gas supplied by the complainant in the city of Van Wert for the period from September 1, 1921, to September 1, 1923, at $2.13 per thousand cubic feet, and ordering a repayment to consumers of the difference between this price and the amount actually charged during such period, viz. $2.50 per thousand. The claim is, of course, made that the rate fixed, $2.13, is confiscatory, and therefore in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the…