State, Ex Rel. v. P. U. C.

This is an original action filed in this court praying the writ of mandamus to command the public utilities commission to proceed to hear a proceeding filed by relator and now pending before the commission. The petition alleges and the answer does not deny that on March 4, 1930, the commission ordered "that the assignment of this proceeding for hearing this day be, and hereby it is vacated, and that the reassignment of such hearing be deferred to some date subsequent to the determination of the issues now pending in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals." It is admitted, therefore, that…