Chicopee Manufacturing Co. v. Public Service Co.

The statute regulating suspension of the orders of the Public Utilities Commission (R. L., c. 414, s. 20, as amended by Laws 1951, chapter 203) provides: “No appeal or other proceedings taken from an order of the commission shall suspend the operation of such order; provided, that the supreme court may order a suspension of such order pending the determination of such appeal or other proceeding whenever, in the opinion of the court, justice may require such suspension; but no order of the public utilities commission providing for a reduction of rates, fares, or charges or denying a petition…