DAKOTA CENT. TEL. CO. v. SOUTH DAKOTA

No. 967.

250 U.S. 163 (1919)

DAKOTA CENTRAL TELEPHONE COMPANY ET AL. v. STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA EX REL. PAYNE, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 2, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Oliver E. Sweet, Assistant Attorney General of the State of South Dakota, with whom Mr. Byron S. Payne, Attorney General of the State of South Dakota, was on the brief, for defendant in error:

Mr. William I. Schaffer, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Bernard J. Myers, Deputy Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by leave of court filed a brief as amici curioe, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Charles E. Elmquist, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curioe, on behalf of thirty-seven States and the National Association of Railway and Utilities Commissioners.

Mr. John J. Blaine, Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin, Mr. M.B. Olbrich, Deputy Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin, and Mr. Joseph E. Messerschmidt, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curioe, on behalf of the State of Wisconsin.

Mr. Hal H. Smith, Mr. David H. Crowley and Mr. Clarence D. Wilcox, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curioe, on behalf of the City of Detroit.

Mr. H. Findlay French and Mr. Ogle Marbury, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curioe, on behalf of the Protective Telephone Association of Baltimore City, Maryland, et al.

Mr. Albert C. Ritchie, Attorney General of the State of Maryland, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curioe, on behalf of the State of Maryland.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Involving as this case does the existence of state power to regulate, without the consent of the United States, telephone rates for business done wholly within the State over lines taken over into the possession of the United States and which by the exercise of its governmental authority it operates and controls, it does not in principle differ from the North...

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