Panther Valley Water Co. v. Public Service Commission

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 8
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 155

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Water companies — Bules and regulations — Cost of installing service pipe — Public Service Commission.</p> <p>Tbe Public Service Commission has jurisdiction to pass upon the reasonableness of the rules of a water company regulating the conditions upon which service will be supplied to a customer.</p> <p>A rule of a water company which requires the consumer to pay the cost of installing and maintaining the service pipe from the main to the curb line is an unreasonable rule and will not be upheld by the Public Service Commission.</p> <p>The utility company, not the consumer, has the right to open and occupy the street. Pipes laid in the cartway should be the property of the utility that there might be no question as to the responsibility in case of lack of proper care and attention to such service lines. The mains are usually laid on one side of the cart-way, and if the consumer was to pay for the service line from the main to the property line the consumer nearest the main would have a decided advantage as to a charge over the consumer on the opposite side of the street. Per Kephart, J.</p>