Public Service Co. v. Recktenwald

The appellee, the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, filed in the county court of Lake county its petition setting forth that it was a corporation organized under the act of 1872 entitled “An act concerning corporations,” to manufacture, produce, distribute and sell gas and electricity, to distribute water and to distribute heat, and was a public utility within the meaning of the act entitled “An act to provide for the regulation of public utilities;” (Laws of 1913, p. 459;) that the Public Utilities Commission, after hearing upon complaint, entered an order finding that the…