Gulf Public Service Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission

BRUNOT, Justice.

The city of Winnfield, represented by its mayor and aldermen, and certain individuals residing in that city, who are consumers of water and electric current, as patrons of the plaintiff company, filed a joint petition with the defendant commission in which they allege that the rates charged by the plaintiff for water and electricity in the city of Winn-field are excessive, and they pray for a hearing on their complaint and, in due course, for a reduction of said rates to a reasonable sum. The application was docketed, service was made, and a hearing of the complaint was had.…