State Ex Rel. Utilities Commission v. Public Service Co. of North Carolina, Inc.

This proceeding involves many of the issues of fact and conclusions of law discussed by this Court in Utilities Commission v. Piedmont Natural Gas Company, decided on May 3, 1961, and reported in 254 N.C. 536, 119 S.E. 2d 469. We may say, however, the Com mission entered the order now involved on April 8, 1960, more than one year prior to our decision in Piedmont. The Commission did not have, but the Superior Court did have before it that decision.

In this proceeding, as in Piedmont, the intent to have Public Service absorb Transco’s rate increase is threaded throughout the record. Both the…