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HOLLIS v. KUTZ

No. 397.

255 U.S. 452 (1921)

HOLLIS ET AL. v. KUTZ ET AL., COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, CONSTITUTING THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 21, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Roscoe F. Walter for appellants.

Mr. F.H. Stephens, with whom Mr. Conrad H. Syme was on the brief, for Public Utilities Commission.

Mr. Benjamin S. Minor, with whom Mr. H. Prescott Gatley and Mr. Hugh B. Rowland were on the brief, for Washington Gas Light Company, appellee.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity brought by private consumers of gas to have two orders of the Public Utilities Commission that increase the rate for gas to private consumers declared void. The first order, Number 254, March 15, 1918, raised the rate from 75 cents per thousand feet to 90 cents. The second, No. 314, March 15, 1919, raised it to not exceeding 95 cents; the orders being made under the authority of the Act...

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