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STATE v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO.

3 Div. 940.

148 So.2d 229 (1962)

STATE of Alabama et al. v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 20, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., J. Taylor Hardin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Maurice F. Bishop, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Douglas Harris, Atty., Public Service Comm., J. M. Breckenridge, Birmingham, J. Howard McEniry, Bessemer, and Frank B. Parsons, Fairfield, for appellants.

R. E. Steiner, III, Steiner, Crum & Baker, Montgomery, Jas. A. Simpson, Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, and Walter R. Byars, Gen. Atty., Birmingham, Jefferson Davis, Gen. Counsel of Southern Tel. Co. and Drury B. Thompson, Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.

HARWOOD, Justice.

We are here confronted with litigation that has dragged its way through the processes of the Alabama Public Service Commission, the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, and the Supreme Court of Alabama for over eight years.

The interests of the rate payers, of the Southern Bell Telephone Company, and of the State of Alabama demand that this litigation be concluded. As observed by the trial court in its decree: "Thus for over six years since...

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