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    section 6133s *(e) Ho injunction shall issue suspending or staying an order of the Commission except upon application to the court or judge thereof, notice to the Commission haring been first given and hearing haring been had thereon** _ "(b) If, upon the trial of such action, evidence shall be introduced by the plaintiff which is found by the court to be dif­ferent from that offered upon the hearing before the commission, or additional thereto, the court, before proceeding to render judgment, unless the parties to sueh action stipulate in writing to the contrary, shall transmit a copy of such evidence to the commission, and shall stay further proceedings in said action for fifteen (1$) days from the date of suoh transmission* Upon receipt of such evidence the com­mission shall consider the same, and may alter, modify, amend, or rescind its orders relating to such rate or rates, fares, charges, classifications, joint rate or rates, regulation, practice, or service complained of in said action, and shall report its action thereon to said court within ten days from, the receipt of sueh evidence*" *(s) If the commission shall rescind its order complained of, the action shall be dismissed; if it shall alter, modify or amend the same, such altered, modified, or amended order shall take the place of the original order complained of, and judgment shall be rendered thereon, as though made by the commission in the first instance. If the original order shall not be rescinded or changed by the commission, judgment shall be rendered upon sueh original order.*» *(d) Hither party to said action, within sixty (60) days after the service of a copy of the order or judgment of the court, may appeal or take the case up on error as la other civil actions* Where an appeal is taken to the supreme court of Nevada, the cause shall, on the return of the papers to the higher court, be immediately placed on the calendar of the then pending term, and shall be assigned and brought to a hearing In the same manner as other causes on the calendar." "(d) In all actions under this section the burden of proof shall be upon the party attacking or resisting the order of the commission to show by clear and satisfactory evidence that the order Is unlawful, or unreasonable, as the case may be." Section 6158: "Any person, firm, association or corporation, who or which, as a 'public utility, is now, or may hereafter be, engaged in the business of furnishing for compensation, any city, town, village or hamlet within this state with water for domestic purposes, Shall be lawfully bound to furnish said city, town, village car hamlet a reasonably adequate supply of water at reasonable pressure for fire protection and at reasonable rates, all to be fixed and determined by the public service commission of this state*" v .