WASHINGTON WATER POWER CO. v. IDAHO PUB. UTIL. COM'N

No. 9085.

372 P.2d 409 (1962)

The WASHINGTON WATER POWER COMPANY, Applicant-Appellant, v. IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, Grantor-Respondent, and Petrolane Gas Service, Inc., Applicant-Respondent, and Kootenai Gas Utilities, Inc., Applicant-Respondent. Application of BONNER GAS COMPANY, The Washington Water Power Company, Petrolane Gas Service, Inc., Kootenai Gas Utilities, Inc., for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for Distribution of Natural Gas in Sandpoint, Idaho, and Kootenai Gas Utilities, Inc., Petrolane Gas Service, Inc., The Washington Water Power Company, for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for Distribution of Natural Gas in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

June 15, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey H. Nixon, Boise, Robert L. Simpson and Alan P. O'Kelly, Paine, Lowe, Coffin, Herman & O'Kelly, Spokane, Wash., for Washington Water Power Co.

Frank L. Benson, Atty. Gen., John B. Kugler, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Boise, for Idaho Public Utilities Commission.

Watt E. Prather, Bonners Ferry, and Robert V. Wills, Long Beach, Cal., for Petrolane Gas Service, Inc.

Darwin Cogswell, Atty. for Sandpoint, amicus curiae.


TAYLOR, Justice.

The appellant The Washington Water Power Company and the respondent Petrolane Gas Service, Inc., along with two others not now involved, were rival applicants for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the distribution of natural gas in Sandpoint, Bonner county. The applicants will be referred to hereinafter as "Washington" and "Petrolane."

Washington's application was filed in September, 1959. Petrolane filed its application...

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