Garden Club v. Virginia Public Service Co.

This is an appeal from, an order of the State Corporation Commission, dismissing for want of jurisdiction certain proceedings there instituted by the Virginia Public Service Company.

That corporation petitioned the Commission for permission to erect a dam in the upper entrance to Goshen Pass, that water might be impounded for the development of power. The Garden Club of Virginia, *662as a party interested, intervened to protest, and the ease eaxne on to be heard upon its merits. At the hearing want of jurisdiction was suggested by the Commission itself. Trial on the merits was suspended and…