Zelinger v. Public Service Company of Colorado

Plaintiffs in error, hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs, brought an action in the district court against the Public Service Company of Colorado challenging the legality of charges made by the company for supplying electricity and gas to the residents of the City and County of Denver. Plaintiffs asked that the company be required to make an accounting of payments by all their customers in Denver, and that the court order a refund of all sums paid which were in excess of the maximum rate initially set forth in the franchise which was granted the Public Service Company in the year 1947. The…