—an action brought to enjoin the Public Service Commission of West Virginia, the court said: "We are unable to agree that the fixing of the rates to be charged by complainants to their customers in West Virginia is an unlawful regulation of interstate commerce. The regulation of companies engaged in the transportation of gas is expressly excluded from the scope. of the …

This section is not invalid as conferring on such commission legislative, executive, and judicial powers in violation of the State Constitution, but merely creates an agency for carrying out the legislative scheme with respect to public service corporations.

Constitutional law: commerce clause: state regulation of rates for distribution of natural gas drawn in part from other states

—a case involving an order of this Commission fixing gas rates where it was shown that the utility was engaged in producing, distributing and selling gas in both West Virginia and Ohio, the court held, although some of the gas sold in West Virginia might have been produced in Ohio, yet the fixing of rates for its consumers in West Virginia was not an unlawful regulation of …

Powers conferred in a somewhat different field, but still applicable to public utilities, were involved in a West Virginia case

Sometimes a doubt has existed as to whether interstate commerce had come to an end and both theories have been employed in the disposition of the matter.

—reasonable rate regulation a local matter unless a state attempted to “prevent the transportation and sale of natural gas from” one state to another

The term "gas companies" used in the public-service commission act of West Virginia, embraces companies furnishing natural gas, and the statute was enacted in view of the fact that a very large part of the gas consumed in the State was natural gas.

—the power of the public service commission of the State to investigate and ascertain what are reasonable charges for public utilities (natural gas, in the present instance) was passed upon.

[CITATION] Michie's West Virginia code annotated

[PDF] Constitutional Law: Right to Counsel--The Right to Assistance of Counsel in …

[CITATION] Pike and Fischer administrative law: reporter, service, text

[CITATION] The concept of a business affected with a public interest