Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Public Utilities Commission

Three questions are presented for our review. The first is whether the appellant’s notice of appeal is sufficient to confer jurisdiction on this court to consider the merits of case No. 87-1664. A second, related question is whether the notice of appeal places the commission under a duty to transmit the documents underlying case No. 87-1664. The final question presented is whether Consolidated Rail’s complaint for a writ of mandamus in case No. 87-1837 should be denied as untimely.

For the reasons that follow, we find that the notice of appeal confers jurisdiction on this court, that the…