CITY OF THORNTON v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

No. 20911.

391 P.2d 374 (1964)

The CITY OF THORNTON, Colorado, Petitioner, v. The PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION of the State of Colorado, and the Individual Members thereof, Henry E. Zarlengo, Ralph C. Horton, and Howard S. Bjelland, Commissioners, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado. En Banc.

April 13, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orrel A. Daniel, City Atty., Leonard H. McCain, Edward A. Brown, Asst. City Attys., Brighton, Raphael J. Moses, Sp. Council, Boulder, for petitioner.

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., John J. Conway, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for respondents.

Glenn G. Saunders, Willard S. Snyder, Denver, Frederick T. Henry, Colorado Springs, Gerald J. Ashby, Grand Junction, Arthur E. March, Fort Collins, M. O. Shivers, Jr., Englewood, James P. Turner, Denver, amici curiae.


DAY, Justice.

This is an original proceeding filed by the City of Thornton seeking a writ of prohibition to halt certain proceedings before the Public Utilities Commission.

The parties will be referred to as follows: The petitioner as Thornton; the respondent Public Utilities Commission and the individual members thereof as the Commission. Others interested are: Northwest Utilities Company, to whom we will refer as Northwest; certain water users who were permitted...

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