Borough of New Cumberland v. Public Service Commission

Citations

• 76 Pa. Super. 382
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 158

Syllabus

<p>Public Service Commission — Water companies — Rates—Notice of intention to collect — Complaints—Burden of proof.</p> <p>An ordinance fixing a maximum rate to be charged by a public utility is enacted subject to the power of the state to regulate the rate.</p> <p>A water company having filed its schedule of rates failed to collect them from a certain section of its territory. Three years after-wards, on notice that it would collect the uniform rate throughout all of the territory which it supplied, a complaint was filed alleging that the charges were unjust and unreasonable. On hearing before the Public Service Commission.</p> <p>Held, that the burden of proof was upon complainants and that the evidence produced at the trial of the case was sufficient to warrant the findings of the commission.</p>