Hodges v. Public Service Commission

Hatcher, Judge:

This proceeding was instituted by West Virginia Power & Transmission Company before the public service commission under the water power act of 1929. See ch. 58, Acts 1929. The commission granted the applicant a license to construct a series of dams on Cheat River and its watershed. The protestants are citizens of West Virginia who resisted the application before the commission, and then appealed to the circuit court of Kanawha county which reversed the commission and remanded the proceeding. The applicant secured an appeal to this court.

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