City of Milwaukee v. Railroad Commission

The proceedings before the Railroad Commission were commenced by a petition filed by the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (hereinafter called the Railway Company), in which it alleged that the rates of *343fare on its system were inadequate; that it had been compelled to use part of its earnings from the electric light and power business, in which it was also engaged, to make necessary extensions and improvements of its street railway, and that it doubted the propriety of such diversions of money from its light and power earnings; that it requested an examination of the characteristics…