SOUTHERN CONT. TEL. CO. v. RAILROAD & PUB. UTIL. COM'N


285 S.W.2d 115 (1955)

SOUTHERN CONTINENTAL TELEPHONE COMPANY, etc. v. The RAILROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION of the State of Tennessee et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 9, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jared Maddux and Cameron & Maddux, Cookeville, and Lon P. MacFarland, Columbia, for Southern Continental Tel. Co.

Alfred T. MacFarland and Harold Seligman, Nashville, for Tennessee Public Service Commission.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

The Telephone Company has filed a strong and well presented petition to rehear. The Railroad and Public Utilities Commission has made no reply.

This Court's opinion asserted that in the Commission's Exhibit B is a statement that the rate of return which it proposed "is in excess of that of like utilities in surrounding territories". The petition to rehear is correct in its statement that this

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