Bethlehem City Water Co. v. Public Service Commission
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 20, March T., 1918, by plaintiff, from order of Public Service Commission, Application Docket, No. 1236, 1917, approving certificate of public convenience in case of Bethlehem City Water Company v. Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, appellee, and Northampton County Water Company, Intervening appellee. Petition for certificate of public convenience, approving the extension of water pipes into a borough.
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Appeal, No. 20, March T., 1918, by plaintiff, from order of Public Service Commission, Application Docket, No. 1236, 1917, approving certificate of public convenience in case of Bethlehem City Water Company v. Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, appellee, and Northampton County Water Company, Intervening appellee. Petition for certificate of public convenience, approving the extension of water pipes into a borough. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order of the Public Service Commission approving the application.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
The Northampton County Water Company was incorporated January 6, 1916, for the purpose of supplying water to the public in the Borough of Freemansburg in the said county. In April, 1917, it received a petition from a number of lot owners in Bethlehem Township, but adjacent to the Borough of Freemansburg, asking it *501to extend its pipes into the said adjacent territory where a considerable demand for a water supply had suddenly arisen. In undertaking to avail itself of the privileges conferred by the Act of 21st May, 1901, P. L. 270, it applied to the Public Service Commission…
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