public
util
commission
attleboro
steam
electric
argued
decided
january
boyden
boston
arthur
allen
charles
sisson
providence
frank
comerford
boston
petitioners
robert
dodge
boston
archibald
matteson
providence
harold
davis
boston
respondent
justice
sanford
delivered
opinion
case
involves
constitutional
validity
order
public
utilities
commission
rhode
island
putting
effect
schedule
prices
applying
sale
electric
current
interstate
commerce
narragansett
electric
lighting
company
rhode
island
corporation
engaged
manufacturing
electric
current
generating
plant
city
providence
selling
current
generally
light
heat
power
attleboro
steam
electric
company
massachusetts
corporation
engaged
supplying
electric
current
public
private
use
city
attleboro
vicinity
state
companies
entered
contract
narragansett
company
agreed
sell
attleboro
company
buy
period
twenty
years
electricity
required
attleboro
company
use
sale
city
attleboro
adjacent
territory
specified
basic
rate
current
delivered
narragansett
company
state
line
rhode
island
massachusetts
carried
connecting
transmission
lines
station
attleboro
company
massachusetts
metered
narragansett
company
filed
public
utilities
commission
rhode
island
schedule
setting
rate
general
terms
contract
authorized
commission
grant
attleboro
company
special
rate
therein
shown
two
companies
entered
upon
performance
contract
current
thereafter
supplied
accordance
terms
generating
plant
attleboro
company
dismantled
narragansett
previously
made
unsuccessful
attempt
obtain
increase
special
rate
attleboro
company
rhode
island
commission
new
schedule
purporting
cancel
original
schedule
establish
increased
rate
electric
current
supplied
specified
minimum
quantities
electric
lighting
companies
use
sale
customers
delivered
either
rhode
island
state
line
attleboro
company
fact
customer
narragansett
company
new
schedule
apply
commission
thereupon
instituted
investigation
contract
rate
proposed
rate
hearing
companies
represented
commission
found
owing
principally
increased
cost
generating
electricity
narragansett
company
rendering
service
attleboro
company
suffering
operating
loss
without
return
investment
devoted
service
rates
customers
yielded
fair
return
contract
rate
unreasonable
continuance
service
attleboro
company
detrimental
general
public
welfare
prevent
narragansett
company
performing
full
duty
customers
proposed
rate
reasonable
yield
fair
return
service
attleboro
company
commission
thereupon
made
order
putting
effect
rate
contained
new
schedule
order
attleboro
company
prosecuted
appeal
rhode
island
one
various
objections
authority
missouri
kansas
gas
order
commission
imposed
direct
burden
interstate
commerce
invalid
conflict
commerce
clause
constitution
entered
decree
reversing
order
directing
rate
investigation
dismissed
conceded
rightly
sale
electric
current
narragansett
company
attleboro
company
transaction
interstate
commerce
notwithstanding
fact
current
delivered
state
line
transmission
electric
current
one
state
another
like
gas
interstate
commerce
coal
coke
pub
serv
essential
character
affected
passing
custody
title
state
boundary
arresting
continuous
transmission
intended
destination
people
gas
pub
serv
petitioners
contend
however
rhode
island
commission
effectively
exercise
power
regulate
rates
electricity
furnished
narragansett
company
local
consumers
without
also
regulating
rates
service
furnishes
narragansett
company
continues
furnish
electricity
atteboro
company
loss
tend
increase
burden
local
consumers
impair
ability
narragansett
company
give
good
service
reasonable
prices
therefore
order
commission
prescribing
reasonable
rate
interstate
service
attleboro
company
sustained
essentially
local
regulation
necessary
protection
matters
local
interest
affecting
interstate
commerce
indirectly
incidentally
support
contention
rely
chiefly
upon
pennsylvania
gas
pub
serv
controlling
question
presented
whether
present
case
comes
within
rule
pennsylvania
gas
case
kansas
gas
case
upon
attleboro
company
relies
pennsylvania
gas
case
company
transmitted
natural
gas
main
pipe
line
source
supply
pennsylvania
point
distribution
city
new
york
subdivided
sold
retail
local
consumers
supplied
main
pipes
laid
streets
city
holding
new
york
public
service
commission
might
regulate
rate
charged
consumers
said
state
may
regulate
burden
interstate
commerce
may
instances
subjectmatter
regulated
congress
pass
laws
affecting
commerce
needed
protect
regulate
matters
local
interest
thing
new
york
commission
undertaken
regulate
part
interstate
transmission
ture
pertaining
furnishing
gas
local
consumers
service
rendered
local
similar
local
plant
furnishing
gas
consumers
city
service
character
required
general
dn
uniform
regulation
rates
congressional
action
even
local
rates
might
interstate
business
company
kansas
gas
case
company
whose
business
principally
interstate
transported
natural
gas
continuous
pipe
lines
wells
oklahoma
kansas
missouri
sold
delivered
distributing
companies
sold
delivered
local
consumers
holding
rate
company
charged
gas
sold
distributing
companies
sold
local
consumers
subject
regulation
public
utilities
commission
missouri
said
absence
congressional
action
state
may
generally
enact
laws
internal
police
although
indirect
effect
upon
interstate
commerce
commerce
clause
constitution
force
restrains
imposing
direct
burdens
upon
interstate
commerce
state
enactment
imposing
burden
must
fall
direct
restraint
absence
federal
regulation
free
minnesota
rate
cases
ann
cas
sale
delivery
distributing
companies
inseparable
part
transaction
interstate
local
essentially
national
enforcement
selling
price
transaction
places
direct
burden
upon
commerce
inconsistent
freedom
interstate
trade
purpose
commerce
clause
secure
perserve
pennsylvania
gas
case
decision
rested
ground
ice
consumers
regulated
charge
made
local
things
done
business
essentially
national
aspect
come
supplying
local
consumers
local
business
even
though
gas
brought
another
state
local
interest
paramount
interference
interstate
commerce
indirect
minor
importance
sale
gas
wholesale
quantities
consumers
distributing
companies
resale
consumers
transportation
sale
delivery
constitutes
unbroken
chain
fundamentally
interstate
beginning
end
paramount
interest
local
national
admitting
requiring
uniformity
regulation
though
uniformity
governmental
nonaction
may
highly
necessary
preserve
equality
opportunity
treatment
among
various
communities
concerned
clear
present
case
controlled
kansas
gas
case
order
rhode
island
commission
pennsylvania
gas
case
regulation
rates
charged
local
consumers
merely
incidental
effect
upon
interstate
commerce
regulation
rates
charged
narragansett
company
interstate
service
attleboro
company
places
direct
burden
upon
interstate
commerce
imposition
direct
burden
upon
interstate
commerce
state
restrained
force
commerce
clause
must
necessarily
fall
regardless
purpose
shafer
farmers
grain
real
silk
mills
portland
di
santo
pennsylvania
ed
day
decided
immaterial
narragansett
company
rhode
island
corporation
subject
regulation
commission
local
business
rhode
island
state
electric
current
transmitted
interstate
commerce
received
kansas
gas
case
forwarding
state
obviously
authority
receiving
state
place
direct
burden
upon
interstate
commerce
pennsylvania
west
virginia
material
general
business
narragansett
company
appears
chiefly
local
kansas
gas
case
company
principally
engaged
interstate
business
test
validity
state
regulation
character
general
business
company
whether
particular
business
regulated
essentially
local
national
character
regulation
places
direct
burden
upon
interstate
business
none
less
beyond
power
state
may
smaller
part
general
business
furthermore
rhode
island
place
direct
burden
upon
interstate
business
narragansett
company
result
indirect
benefit
customers
narragansett
company
rhode
island
massachusetts
parity
reasoning
reduce
rates
interstate
business
order
benefit
customers
attleboro
company
state
aggregate
interest
interstate
rate
correlative
customers
narragansett
company
rhode
island
plainly
however
paramount
interest
interstate
business
carried
two
companies
local
either
state
essentially
national
character
rate
therefore
subject
regulation
either
two
guise
protection
respective
local
interests
regulation
required
attained
exercise
power
vested
congress
see
covington
bridge
kentucky
hanley
kansas
city
ry
decree
accordingly
affirmed
justice
brandeis
dissenting
business
narragansett
company
intrastate
one
electricity
sold
use
without
state
agreed
delivered
attleboro
company
company
takes
less
per
cent
electricity
produced
manufactured
narragansett
customers
rhode
island
problem
essentially
local
character
commission
found
fact
continuance
service
attleboro
company
existing
rate
prevent
narragansett
performing
full
duty
towards
customers
detrimental
general
public
welfare
issued
order
specifically
prevent
unjust
discrimination
prevent
unjust
increase
price
customers
narragansett
public
service
corporation
rhode
island
subject
regulation
state
order
complained
clearly
valid
exercise
police
power
unless
violates
commerce
clause
power
state
regulate
selling
price
electricity
produced
distributed
within
state
prevent
discrimination
affected
fact
supply
furnished
longterm
contract
union
dry
goods
georgia
public
service
corporation
commission
lacks
power
exercised
solely
electricity
delivered
use
another
state
fact
makes
transaction
interstate
commerce
congress
power
legislate
subject
done
legislated
allied
subject
contention
occupied
field
case
said
silence
congress
command
rhode
island
utility
shall
remain
free
public
shall
free
discriminate
citizens
state
incorporated
business
state
may
course
obstruct
directly
burden
interstate
commerce
prevent
discrimination
price
electricity
wherever
used
obstruct
place
direct
burden
upon
interstate
commerce
regulation
action
unlike
burden
imposed
transportation
rate
fixed
wabash
louis
pacific
illinois
property
moving
interstate
commerce
taxed
champlain
realty
brattleboro
burden
resulting
order
question
resembles
nearly
increase
cost
article
produced
delivered
arises
reason
higher
taxes
laid
upon
plant
operations
profits
old
dominion
virginia
ann
cas
american
mfg
louis
arises
reason
expenditures
required
police
regulations
pittsburg
southern
coal
louisiana
sligh
kirkwood
merchants
exchange
missouri
like
regulation
sustained
pennsylvania
gas
public
service
commission
order
new
york
public
service
commission
fixed
rates
gas
piped
without
state
delivered
directly
consumers
might
sold
case
bar
seems
distinguishable
others
state
regulation
held
precluded
commerce
clause
missouri
kansas
natural
gas
held
void
regulation
fixed
rates
gas
piped
without
state
delivered
distributing
companies
sold
latter
pennsylvania
gas
case
distinguished
things
done
local
business
supplying
demand
local
consumers
local
business
even
though
gas
brought
another
state
drawn
distribution
directly
interstate
mains
case
local
interest
paramount
sale
gas
wholesale
quantities
consumers
distributing
companies
resale
consumers
numerous
cities
different
paramount
interest
local
national
page
emphasized
supply
company
exception
important
wholly
interstate
page
shafer
farmers
grain
ed
north
dakota
regulation
held
invalid
per
cent
wheat
sold
within
state
buyers
purchase
shipment
ship
terminal
markets
outside
state
paid
country
elevators
rises
falls
price
terminal
markets
two
cases
burden
deemed
direct
one
businesses
essentially
interstate
pennsylvania
west
virginia
state
regulation
held
void
discriminating
interstate
commerce
opinion
judgment
reversed
footnotes
commission
authorized
narragansett
company
put
effect
schedule
increasing
special
rate
attleboro
company
enforcement
enjoined
ground
lack
essential
finding
commission
attleboro
steam
narragansett
light
electric
lighting
company
supplied
narragansett
company
required
either
prospectively
quantity
current
necessary
make
proposed
rate
applicable
commission
stated
attleboro
company
customer
narragansett
company
affected
proposed
rate
brief
petitioners
attleboro
company
customer
falling
within
schedule
class
evidence
showed
narragansett
company
customers
one
current
produced
went
attleboro
company