Northern Utilities, Inc. v. Public Service Commission of Wyoming

• Decision Date: 25 November 1980
• Docket Number: No. 5365,5365
• Citation: Northern Utilities, Inc. v. Public Service Commission of Wyoming, 620 P.2d 139 (Wyo. 1980)
• Parties: NORTHERN UTILITIES, INC., Northern Utilities Division of Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Company, Inc., Northern Gas Company, and Northern Gas Division of Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Company, Inc., Appellants (Petitioners), v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF WYOMING, Appellee (Respondent).
• Court: Wyoming Supreme Court

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620 P.2d 139

NORTHERN UTILITIES, INC., Northern Utilities Division of Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Company, Inc., Northern Gas Company, and Northern Gas Division of Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Company, Inc., Appellants (Petitioners), v.PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF WYOMING, Appellee (Respondent).

No. 5365.

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Nov. 25, 1980.

Wm. Bryce Arendt and Wm. H. Brown and Claude W. Martin of Brown, Drew, Apostolos, Massey & Sullivan, Casper, for appellants.

John D. Troughton, Atty. Gen., Thomas J. Carroll, III, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen. and Steven R. Shanahan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, for appellee.

ORDER DISMISSING APPEAL

RAPER, Chief Justice.

During oral argument before this Court in the above appeal it was disclosed by counsel for the appellants(Northern) and appellee(PSC) that following dismissal of Northern's appeal by the District Court, and during the course of this appeal Northern filed with the PSC new applications for rate increases in a form satisfactory to both Northern and the PSC and that rate hearings thereon before the PSC have been held and concluded and that the applications out of which this appeal arises were abandoned and not considered.

The Court finds that the parties are now in accord and no justiciable controversy any longer exists.

The Court concludes that:

1.Where subsequent to submission of a case on appeal the parties compromise their differences, the questions involved become moot and dismissal is required even though the parties or a party may request a...