Hollis v. Kutz

Citations

• 255 U.S. 452
• 41 S. Ct. 371
• 65 L. Ed. 727
• 1921 U.S. LEXIS 1741

Syllabus

<p>1. Under the act establishing the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia, a person claiming that an order of the commission raising the rates of a gas company infringes his constitutional rights need not make complaint or appear before the commission before bringing suit- to have the order declared void. P. 454.</p> <p>2: An order of the commission, raising the rates chargeable by a gas company to private consumers in the District of Columbia without changing a lower and unremunerative rate fixed by act of Congress for gas .furnished the Government and the District, held not to involve any unconstitutional discrimination against private consumers, or taking of their property without due process of law, since ' the United States may fix any rate, for itself and for the District, as a condition to, the gas company’s establishment in the District, and private consumers are not compelled to purchase gas. - P. 454.</p>