BELL TEL. CO. v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

No. 3715.

253 P.2d 602 (1953)

BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

February 16, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Platt, of Reno, and Francis N. Marshall, of San Francisco, for Appellant.

W. T. Mathews, Attorney General, George P. Annand, Wm. N. Dunseath and John W. Barrett, Deputy Attorneys General, all of Carson City, for Respondent.


BADT, Justice.

This appeal requires us to determine whether the telephone rates now in effect as the result of respondent commission's order afford appellant a just and reasonable return. We hold that they do not, that the rates presently enforced are unreasonable, inadequate and confiscatory, and that the collection of the increased rates sought by the utility's new schedules may no longer be suspended.

This proceeding was initiated by the filing by Bell...

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