BIDDEFORD AND SACO GAS CO. v. PORTLAND GAS LIGHT CO.


233 A.2d 730 (1967)

BIDDEFORD AND SACO GAS COMPANY v. PORTLAND GAS LIGHT COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

October 4, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph E. Harvey, John J. Harvey, Biddeford, Edward N. Gadsby, Boston, Mass., William R. Connole, Washington, D. C., for Biddeford & Saco Gas Co.

Vincent L. McKusick, Gerald M. Amero, William S. Linnell, Franklin G. Hinckley, Caspar F. Cowan, Portland, Thomas Brosnan, Gallagher, Connor & Boland, Washington, D. C., for Portland Gas Light Co.

John G. Feehan, Augusta, for Public Utilities Commission.

George A. Wathen, Augusta, for Consumers.

Before WILLIAMSON, C. J., and WEBBER, TAPLEY, MARDEN, DUFRESNE and WEATHERBEE, JJ.


MARDEN, Justice.

On appeal by Biddeford and Saco Gas Company (Biddeford) from a majority decree of the Public Utilities Commission (Commission) consenting to Portland Gas Light Company's (Portland) furnishing and extending its distribution of natural gas throughout York County and the denial of Biddeford's petition for recognition of its alleged subsisting franchise and for cancellation of its authority granted by the Commission in 1960 to abandon gas distribution...

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