Carpenter v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Harley D. Carpenter, appellant herein, is engaged in the business of distributing electric current, for light, heat and power, to the public in a number of townships and boroughs in Crawford County, through eleven small companies owned or controlled by him. He purchases the current from Pennsylvania Electric Company under a contract based upon “Rate I” of that company’s filed tariff, Electric, Pa., P. U. C. No. 34.

In September, 1938, Carpenter filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission charging that the Pennsylvania Electric Company is…