SOUTHWESTERN BELL TEL. v. STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION

Nos. 42,348 and 42,472 (Consolidated)

192 Kan. 39 (1963)

386 P.2d 515

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellee, v. THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, HARRY G. WILES, Chairman and Commissioner, MARION BEATTY, Commissioner, and RICHARD C. BYRD, Commissioner, Members of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed November 2, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles C. McCarter, of Topeka, and Laverne Morin, of Wichita, argued the cause, and George B. Collins, of Wichita, was with them on the briefs for the appellant.

F. Mark Garlinghouse, of St. Louis, Missouri, argued the cause, and Lester M. Goodell, Warren W. Shaw, William A. Gray, Jack C. Lorenz, all of Topeka, and John Hugh Roff, Jr., of St. Louis, Missouri, were with him on the briefs for the appellee.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

JACKSON, J.:

These two appeals were consolidated after they reached this court. They have to do with a rate proceeding commenced before the State Corporation Commission of Kansas (hereinafter referred to as the Commission) by the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (hereinafter referred to as the Company). On a petition for review the district court found the Commission's order unreasonable and unlawful and set it...

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