Elyria Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission

Assigned by the company are 19 specific errors, which for the purpose of this discussion will be grouped.

The first five assigned errors concern the power of the commission to have held the rehearing in the city of Elyria and to have conducted it as a hearing de novo and the complaint that at least part of the evidence could and should have been presented at the original hearing and was not proper on rehearing.

The Public Utilities Commission is a body vested with broad discretionary powers as to both the conduct and the place of its hearings. It was recognized by the General Assembly that in…