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WAYNE COUNTY v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMM.

Docket No. 42, Calendar No. 45,496.

343 Mich. 144 (1955)

72 N.W.2d 109

COUNTY OF WAYNE v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 3, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald K. O'Brien, Prosecuting Attorney, and Leonard Simons, Special Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for plaintiff.

Thomas M. Kavanagh, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, Daniel J. O'Hara and Robert A. Derengoski, Assistants Attorney General for defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Paul T. Dwyer, Corporation Counsel, and James H. Lee, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the City of Detroit, and Dale H. Fillmore, Corporation Counsel, for the City of Dearborn, on combined brief in support of brief of defendant.

KELLY, J.

The sole question presented in this appeal is whether the county of Wayne is authorized to represent rate payers of the county in utility matters brought before the Michigan public service commission.

On June 21, 1950, the county of Wayne filed its bill of complaint in the Ingham circuit court attacking the validity of an emergency order issued by the Michigan public service commission. This order granted...

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