Legal Opinion
Lowell Gas Co. v. Department of Public Utilities
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 11, 1949PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
This is a bill in equity under G. L. (Ter. ■Ed.) c. 25, § 5, to annul a rate order of the department of public utilities on the ground that it is “confiscatory and unlawful.” The plaintiff was incorporated by St. 1849, c. 234, “for the purpose of manufacturing and disposing of gas, in the city of Lowell, and its immediate vicinity,” and has for many years supplied gas in that area. On December 12, 1946, it filed with the department a schedule *82of increased rates, which was disallowed in an order dated April 15, 1947, containing an authorization to file a new schedule of lesser increases to…
2Cases cited59 opinions
- Crowell v. BensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Phillips v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
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3Cited by58 opinions
- Pinnick v. ClearyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
- New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Department of Public UtilitiesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
- Milligan v. Board of Registration in PharmacyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Gildea v. EllershawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1949
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