Pabst Corp. v. City of Milwaukee

The following opinion was filed April 6, 1926:

Stevens, J.

The law placing public utilities under the regulation of the railroad commission was passed in 1907. *352It provided that the “term ‘public utility’ . . . shall mean and embrace . . . every town, village, or city that now or hereafter may own, operate, manage, or control any plant” furnishing water to the public. Sec. 196.01, Stats. At the time of the passage of this law Milwaukee was a city which owned and operated its own water plant. Language could not have been chosen which would have evidenced a clearer legislative intent to subject…