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BELL TEL. CO. v. UTILITY COMM'N.

No. 252.

309 U.S. 30 (1940)

BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA v. PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 29, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Benjamin O. Frick, with whom Messrs. William H. Lamb and E. Everett Mather, Jr. were on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. Claude T. Reno, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, A. Jere Creskoff, and Harry M. Schowalter were on a brief for appellee.

By leave of Court, Messrs. John E. Benton and Clyde S. Bailey filed a brief on behalf of the National Association of Railroad & Utilities Commissioners, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.

PER CURIAM.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, by order of March 15, 1938, required appellant, The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, to revise its intrastate toll rates for distances exceeding 36 miles so as to conform to rates charged by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company for comparable distances for interstate services. The Commission found, after full hearing, that the rates charged for long distance service in Pennsylvania were higher...

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