Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. v. Department of Public Service

Plaintiff brought this action to enjoin the department of public service of the city of Los Angeles, and the board of public service commissioners of that city, from erecting, constructing, operating, or maintaining an electrical distributing system in the city of Los Angeles, until such time as the Railroad Commission of the state should issue a certificate of “public convenience and necessity” therefor. The lower court rendered judgment in favor of the defendants and plaintiff has appealed.

The plaintiff is a corporation engaged, under proper franchises, in generating, furnishing, and distributing electric energy to consumers in the city of Los Angeles and elsewhere for compensation, and has erected and constructed poles, wires, conduits, and other electrical apparatus and appliances in the streets and public places of that city for the purpose of carrying