PUB. SERV. COMM'N v. UTILITIES CO.

No. 627.

289 U.S. 130 (1933)

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF MONTANA ET AL. v. GREAT NORTHERN UTILITIES CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 10, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Francis A. Silver, with whom Mr. Raymond T. Nagle, Attorney General of Montana, was on the brief, for appellants.

Messrs. M.S. Gunn and E.G. Toomey for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

By this appeal we are called on to decide whether an order of the commission prescribing specific, as distinguished from maximum, rates to be charged for natural gas furnished by a public utility, is repugnant to the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The appellee, authorized by a non-exclusive franchise...

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