New Castle Electric Co. v. Public Service Commission

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 20
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 157

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Merger—Electric light companies — Powers—Certificate of public convenience — Supplying street railway company— Recording charter for Public Service Commission.</p> <p>Where ap electric light company is created on December 30,1913, under the Merger Act of May 3, 1909, P. L. 408, by the merger of several electric light companies, and one of these companies is chartered on May 6, 1913, to serve light to a particular township, and the consolidated company immediately after its incorporation begins to supply light in the township in question, it is not necessary for the consolidated company to secure a certificate of public convenience permitting it to do business in such township. It is im-> material that its only customer in such township is a street railway company, and it is also immaterial that the company chartered to serve light in the township had not recorded its charter until July 28, 1913, two days after the passage of the Public Service Act, inasmuch as such act did not become operative until January 1, 1914, which was subsequent to the date of the incorporation of the consolidated company.</p>