City of La Crosse v. Railroad Commission
Wisconsin Supreme Court
• _ Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment setting aside an order of the Railroad Commission entered on June 30, 1918. On May 25, 1918, the Wisconsin-Minnesota Light & Pozver Company filed a petition with the Railroad Commission for an emergency increase of rates for gas sold by petitioner in the city of La Crosse.
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• _ Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment setting aside an order of the Railroad Commission entered on June 30, 1918. On May 25, 1918, the Wisconsin-Minnesota Light & Pozver Company filed a petition with the Railroad Commission for an emergency increase of rates for gas sold by petitioner in the city of La Crosse. The petition recited that new conditions, due to uncontrollable and unexpected events in the cost of gas production, necessitated an increase in gas rates. A hearing was had at the city of La Crosse…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed June 1, 1920:
-Siebecker, J.
On June 30, 1918, the Railroad Commission made an order upon the petition of the defendant utility increasing the existing charges for gas in the city of La Crosse twenty cents per thousand cubic feet of gas in addition to existing rates, which included' a ten-cent surcharge granted August 22, 1917. The Commission declared that the increase was justified in view of the increased cost of fuel, labor, and materials required to operate the gas utility. The nature of the proceeding was considered by the Commission in acting on the…
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