Pennsylvania Utilities Co. v. Lehigh Navigation Electric Co.

Citations

• 254 Pa. 289
• 98 A. 950
• 1916 Pa. LEXIS 720

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Public Service 'Company — Rights of companies exercising franchises prior to the time the Public Service Commission Act of July %6, 1918, P. L. 187-1-, went into effect.</p> <p>Where it did not affirmatively appear that a Public Service Corporation had not, prior to January 1, 1914, the time the Public Service Commission Act of July 26,1913, went into effect, actually commenced to exercise its franchises in the territory covered by its ■charter, it was not error to dismiss an appeal from the action of the Public Service Commission, refusing to interfere with the company’s exercise of its franchises in the said territory.</p>