HOME TEL. CO. v. KUYKENDALL

Nos. 539 and 790.

265 U.S. 206 (1924)

HOME TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY OF SPOKANE v. KUYKENDALL, AS DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS OF WASHINGTON, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1924.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Otto B. Rupp, with whom Mr. Frank T. Post, Mr. H.D. Pillsbury, Mr. C.M. Bracelen and Mr. W.V. Tanner were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. John H. Dunbar, Attorney General of the State of Washington, Mr. Thos. J.L. Kennedy and Mr. Alex M. Winston, with whom Mr. H.C. Brodie, Mr. J.M. Geraghty and Mr. E.K. Murray were on the briefs, for appellees.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

These appeals present the same question as that just considered and decided in the appeal of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company against the same appellees. The bill averred that the plaintiff was a corporation of Washington, owning and operating a telephone system in the City of Spokane and territory adjacent thereto, known as the Spokane Exchange; that on September 20, 1922, it filed with the Department...

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