GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF FLORIDA v. CARTER


115 So.2d 554 (1959)

GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF FLORIDA, a corporation, Petitioner, v. Jerry W. CARTER, as Chairman, and Wilbur C. King and Alan S. Boyd, as members of and constituting the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, Respondents. GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF FLORIDA, a corporation, Petitioner, v. Jerry W. CARTER, as Chairman, and Wilbur C. King and Alan S. Boyd, as members of and constituting the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard P. Macfarlane, Tampa, John Robert Jones, Columbus, Ohio, and Hugh C. Macfarlane, Tampa, for petitioner.

Lewis Petteway, Tallahassee, Gen. Counsel for Florida Railroad & Public Utilities Commission.

John J. Duffy, Tampa, for Avery W. Gilkerson.


HOBSON, Justice.

The petitioner is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Florida for the purpose of conducting a general telephone business within this state. It is engaged in furnishing local and long distance telephone service to the public over its own lines throughout the territory it serves. The petitioner also provides long distance telephone service outside its own territory through its connections with other companies within Florida and the...

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