Pennsylvania Utilities Co. v. Lehigh Navigation Electric Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Utilities Co. v. Lehigh Navigation Electric Co., 254 Pa. 289 (Pa. 1916)
98 A. 950; 1916 Pa. LEXIS 720
Brown, Frazer, Mestrezat, Stewart, Walling
Pennsylvania Utilities Co. v. Lehigh Navigation Electric Co.
Opinion of the Court
As it did not affirmatively appear that the Lehigh Navigation Electric Company had not, prior to January 1, 1911, — the date when the Public Service Commission Act went into effect, — actually commenced to exercise its franchises in the territory covered by its charter, the court below did not err in dismissing appellant’s appeal from the action of the Public Service Commission.
Appeal dismissed at appellant’s costs.
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- Pennsylvania Utilities Company v. Lehigh Navigation Electric Company and the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania
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- Corporations — Public Service 'Company — Rights of companies exercising franchises prior to the time the Public Service Commission Act of July %6, 1918, P. L. 187-1-, went into effect. Where it did not affirmatively appear that a Public Service Corporation had not, prior to January 1, 1914, the time the Public Service Commission Act of July 26,1913, went into effect, actually commenced to exercise its franchises in the territory covered by its ■charter, it was not error to dismiss an appeal from the action of the Public Service Commission, refusing to interfere with the company’s exercise of its franchises in the said territory.