Alabama Gas Corporation v. Wallace

The legislature of Alabama has restricted the review by courts of the action of the Public Service Commission in rate-fixing cases. The legislature has proclaimed that the rate-fixing order of the Public Service Commission must be taken as prima facie just and reasonable; and where the reasonableness or validity thereof is an issue, the burden is upon any party attacking such rates or orders to show that the same are invalid or unfair and unreasonable. Title 48, Section 71, Code of Alabama 1940 (Recompiled 1958). A long line of decisions has interpreted this legislative mandate to mean that…