City of Cleveland v. Public Utilities Commission

Appellant assigned 55 errors but reduced these assigned errors to four questions to be decided by this court. The four questions are as follows:

1. Has the commission fixed excessive rates which have confiscated the property of appellant and its ratepayers?

2. May the commission utilize published trend factors to aid in valuation of property for the determination of the statutory rate base of the company’s property?

3. Is the company’s coal escalation clause an unconstitutional delegation by the commission of its power to set rates?

*844. Is the commission’s order allowing the rate increase…