Ohio Utilities Co. v. Public Utilities Commission

Epitomized Opinion

First Publication of this Opinion

The Ohio Utilities Company was engaged in supplying gas and electricity to the Yillage of Hillsboro, Ohio. In 1920 a certain business association of that village filed a protest with the Public Utilities Commission against the rates that had previously been filed by the Gas Company. The Public Utilities Commission reduced these rates and entered an order that the Company refund in cash or by credit any differences between the new rates and the charges imposed upon its consumers from 1920 to 1923. Upon denial of the application for a…