Commonwealth v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) petitions for review of an order by the Public Utility Commission directing it to pay $3000 to the Consolidated Bail Corporation (Conrail) as Penn-DOT’s share of the expense of repairing a bridge in the Borough of North Irwin.

In October of 1975, the borough filed a complaint against Westmoreland County, West Penn Power Company, Peoples Natural Gas, PennDOT and Penn Central Transportation Company — to which Conrail is the successor — alleging that the 75-year old bridge, *226which carries a borough street, Fourth Street,…