State Ex Rel. Public Service Commission v. Great Northern Utilities Co.

Appeal from a judgment of dismissal in mandamus proceedings. The record herein discloses that the Great Northern Utilities Company, hereafter referred to as the Utility, has been in the business of furnishing natural gas to the people of Shelby for some years and, up to 1927, charged, based upon the amount used, from sixty down to thirty cents per thousand feet. In 1927 the Public Service Commission, hereafter called the Commission, gave notice of a hearing on these rates, whereupon the Utility reduced its maximum rate to fifty cents per M.

In October, 1928, a rival concern commenced serving a…