Pittsburgh & West Virginia Gas Co. v. Public Service Commission

Lively, Judge:

The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company, a public utility corporation, complains of an order of the Public Service Commission refusing to complainant a raise in its rates to its industrial and domestic consumers in this state, on the ground that the rates now in effect are confiscatory.

The application for increase in rates was filed in December of 1924. Protests were interposed by individual consumers and by the City of Grafton; evidence was taken on the part of the applicant, and the Commission caused an audit and report of the books and affairs of the utility to be taken…