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Show COURTS DISMISS , POWERJPPEALS UNITED STATES TRIDUNAL OF LA8T RESORT REFU8E3 TO SET ASIDE UTILITY ORDER8 Oaden-Portland, Union-Portland and Utah-Idaho Central Railroad Companies Lose In Action Ac-tion After Appeal i ' Ji Washington. Appeals of tho Ogdon Portland and tho Union Portland Cement Ce-ment companies nnd of tho Utah-Idaho Central llnllrond company to hnio act nsido tho orders of the public utilltloii commission of Utnh, canceling their contracts with tho Utah Power anew Light company, woro Monday dls missed from the supremo court. Ordors of tho public utilities commission com-mission cancollng tho contracts of the coinpanlos nbovo nnmed, nnd wnich woro nfflrmoil by tho aupromo crurt of I'tah, woro throe of tho olghtoen ennos which woro appealed from the decision of tho commission to tlio supreme su-preme cjurt of Utah. Originally thoro woro Bovonty-throo ciibos, known un tho special contract casoo, in which tho Utah Coppor com puny wna ono of tho complainants,, nnd which mndo tho fight boforo the utllltloo commission. Tho cuso wns bit. torly contested nnd aftor a prolongod hearing, wJileh oxtondod over soveral wooks and in which the testimony presented pre-sented mado several volumes and a number of oloctrlcal exjiorts frosi various va-rious parts of tho country testified, tho utilities commission hold thnt It had tho right to nnnul contracts mado with the power company nnd to plnco them upon tho a.imo achedulo no other oth-er consumers of power. Tho Union Portland Cement company com-pany and tho Ogdon Portland Cemont Company nnd tho L'tah-Idnho Central Rnllro.-.d company, together with the I'tnh Copper company and fourtoen others, npponlod from the order of the Lommission to the stato supremo court, which trlbiinol uidield the lowor court From this decision tho cemont companies nnd tho rnllrond company appealed to tho United Stntoo supremo court, Tho cusp was presented in br.'ofa to tho court sovcr.il Weeks ago. Tlio dismissal follows as stated ln tho dispatch from Washington. It was contended by tho companies that tholr contracts fdr oloctric current cur-rent woro protectod by tho federal constitution and woro mndo prior tn tho creation of the ptillUoa commission, commis-sion, and that tho declslun of the Utah Biipromo court sustaining ordeis of tho commission cancelling tho con-tracts con-tracts on tho ground that, they woro preferential, should be roversod. The stato assertod that tho ngrooment woro ordinary sorvico contracts, which properly woro terminated so that all consumors could enjoy uniform rutei. |