PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION v. DISTRICT COURT, ETC.

No. 25742.

506 P.2d 371 (1973)

The PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR the CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER and Mitchel B. JOHNS, Judge thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

February 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., John P. Moore, Deputy Atty. Gen., Irvin M. Kent and Eugene C. Cavaliere, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for petitioner.

Jones, Meiklejohn, Kehl & Lyons, Alvin J. Meiklejohn, Jr., Denver, for respondents.


DAY, Justice.

This original proceeding for a writ of prohibition was sought by the Public Utilities Commission against the Denver district court and Honorable Mitchel B. Johns, one of the judges thereof, on the ground that the court was acting in excess of its jurisdiction. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

The PUC decision in question originated from the filing of a tariff with certain...

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