In re Pfenning

Subject matter jurisdiction of the Public Service Board, under 30 V.S.A. § 201 and 30 V.S.A. § 203, is the sole question presented for review by the question certified from the Public Service Board. As the Board correctly ruled, determination of this question could well terminate the whole litigation, because if there is no jurisdiction the Board cannot grant either petitioners’ prayer for permission to abandon the water system here in question or their alternative prayer for a certificate of public good and a rate increase. Interlocutory appeal of the Board’s ruling in favor of jurisdiction…