

They have the same directors, the same secretary-treasurer, and the same general manager and assistant secretary-treasurer. Both companies join in attacking these findings. It also found that the water production facilities Corona obtained from Coronita were necessary and useful to Corona and denied its application for permission to sell those facilities to Temescal. Code, §§ 216, 240, 241, 2701, 2702) and that it is not exempt from regulation under section 2705 of the Public Utilities Code. After further hearings it found that Temescal is a public utility that has dedicated its property to public use (see Pub. Following a hearing on the application, the commission instituted an investigation on its own motion into the relationship between Corona and Temescal and the status of Temescal and reopened the hearing of Corona's application. In 1956 Corona applied to the commission for permission to sell those facilities to Temescal on the ground that they were not useful to Corona's utility operations. In 1955 Corona secured the commission's approval to buy all of the assets of the Coronita Mutual Water Company and to extend its service to the former consumers supplied by that company, on condition that it retain the water production facilities of Coronita until further order of the commission. Corona is a regulated public utility water company that secures its water from Temescal as a shareholder of Temescal stock. Temescal is organized as a nonpublic utility mutual water company and has not heretofore been regulated by the commission. In this proceeding Corona City Water Company and Temescal Water Company attack an order of the Public Utilities Commission denying Corona's application for permission to sell property to Temescal and determining that Temescal is a public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the commission. Cassidy, Assistant Chief Counsel, and Mary Moran Pajalich, Senior Counsel, for Respondent. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Respondent.Ĭlayson, Stark & Rothrock and George G. , 54 Cal.2d 834ĬORONA CITY WATER COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Petitioners, v.
