Harmony Electric Co. v. Public Service Commission

Citations

• 71 Pa. Super. 355
• 1919 Pa. Super. LEXIS 110

Syllabus

<p>Electric light companies — Competing companies — Contracts— Approval by Public Service Commission.</p> <p>Where an electric light company has not exclusive right to furnish electric current under the' law of its creation, and has no vested contract right so to do, and there is a company already in existence which has the right to furnish the current, and has for years done so, to the satisfaction of all parties concerned, the question whether the approval of a contract with the first company was necessary or proper for the service, accommodation and convenience of the public is a question of fact, and not of law.</p> <p>Where the Public Service Commission, after considering all the facts and surrounding circumstances, declines to approve such contract, it is acting in its administrative capacity, and the Superior Court will not reverse the determination of the commission, except in a ease involving manifest and flagrant abuse of discretion.</p>