Ghriest

This is an application for a writ of review wherein petitioner seeks to have reviewed and set aside an order made by the railroad commission, determining that public convenience and necessity require the construction, operation, and maintenance by the Pacific Light and Power corporation of an electrical transmission line from Dominguez in Los Angeles County to the city of Newport Beach, and the construction, operation, and maintenance of an electrical distributing system in the city of Newport Beach. The peti tioner is and for a long time has been operating in said city an electrical generating plant and an electric distributing system, and the effect of the order of the commission will be that the Pacific Light and Power corporation will enter into competition with him and he will be injuriously affected by such competition.

The order complained of was one made under the provisions of section 50 of the Public Utilities Act [Stats. 1911, (Ex. Sess.) p. 43], which prohibit such a public utility as the Pacific Light and Power corporation from extending its service into a city, etc., theretofore served by a public utility of like character, without having first obtained from the…