Public Utilities Reports

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the relations between the companies are so intimate, if the credit and cash of the company were so depleted. The approval of the proposed rules is withheld, with a full recognition of the fact that extensions and service connections nm.-rt be governed by rules that are fair to the company, just to the new customer and equitable to the present patron. In connection with the rate case, we will give this matter full consideration, with the end in view that the company may receive adequate rates, the public good service at reasonable charges, and that continued growth of the community where the company enjoys valuable and exclusive rights may be promoted. NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, THIRD DEPARTMENT. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, SECOND DISTRICT v. PAVILION NATURAL GAS COMPANY. (? App. Div. ?, 187 N. Y. Supp. 363.) Rates ? I'oirer tf Htate ? Franchises. 1. A franchise stipulation Axing maximum gas rates is a contract, but i subject to the police power of the state and may be modified for the public welfare, by the legislature through the Public Service Commission. ? Fran chine contract ? Power of Commission. 2. A gas company, with maximum rates fixed by a franchise, is not empowered to chanjre such rates by simply giving thirty days' notice to the Commission and publication for thirty days to the public, but must secure the Commission's sanction of such change. Bates ? I'oicer of Commission ? Franchises. Discussion of the power of the Commission over rates and rate contracts, p. 13. (KiLET, J., dissents.) [February 28, 1921.] Appeal from a judgment of Special Term, dismissing a complaint against gas rates; judgment reversed and new trial granted. For Special Term decision, see 111 Misc. 692, P.U.T(. 1920D, 844, 182 N. Y. Supp. ...