Delph v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 1981
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Springfield Consolidated Water Co. v. Philadelphia · 155 Pa. Super. 270 - Scranton Electric Co. v. Avoca Borough School District · Stiteler v. Bell Telephone Co.
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“Contracts for the service of utilities are presumed to have been made subject to the police power of the state ..., and it is beyond the power of the contracting parties to fix rates or provide for service permanently. . . . [T]he Public Utility Law supplant[s] any agreement in so far as rates are involved between the consumer and the utility. (Citations omitted, emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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