DEL. RIVER PORT AUTH. v. PA. P.U.C.


408 Pa. 169 (1962)

Delaware River Port Authority, Appellant, v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 28, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Duane, with him Francis W. Sullivan, and Duane, Morris & Heckscher, for Authority, appellant.

Joseph I. Lewis, Chief Counsel, with him William A. Goichman, Assistant Counsel, for Public Utility Commission, appellee.

Ernest R. von Starck, with him Vincent P. McDevitt, Samuel Graff Miller, Robert P. Garbarino, and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, for electric company, intervenor, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and O'BRIEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, June 28, 1962:

The subject matter of this appeal is the relocation costs incurred by the Philadelphia Electric Company (Company) in moving its electric utility lines from one part of a public highway to another part to make way for the construction of certain approaches to the Walt Whitman Bridge connecting Philadelphia with New Jersey.

In 1960, appellant, the Delaware River Port Authority (Authority) filed a complaint in the...

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