WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT CO. v. BAKER

Nos. 10705, 10706.

188 F.2d 11 (1950)

WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT CO. v. BAKER. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. BAKER.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 21, 1950.

Writ of Certiorari Denied March 26, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Stoddard M. Stevens, New York City, of the Bar of the Supreme Court of New York pro hace vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. F. G. Awalt and C. Oscar Berry, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant in No. 10705. Mr. William V. T. Justis, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant in No. 10705.

Mr. Lloyd B. Harrison, Special Asst. Corporation Counsel, D. C., Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Vernon E. West Corporation Counsel, D. C., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant in No. 10706. Mr. Edward A. Beard, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant in No. 10706.

Messrs. Herbert P. Leeman and William A. Roberts, Washington, D. C., with whom Mrs. Irene Kennedy and Messrs. Francis J. Ortman and Jerome M. Alper, all of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, BAZELON and FAHY, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Denied March 26, 1951. See 340 U.S. 952, 71 S.Ct. 571.

BAZELON, Circuit Judge.

Appellee Vernon V. Baker, a consumer of gas distributed by the Washington Gas Light Company, sued in the District Court to set aside a rate increase granted the appellant Company by the appellant Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia.1 The rate increase resulted from a hearing which the Company had requested on the...

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