NEW ENGLAND TEL. & TEL. CO. v. STATE

No. 6518.

113 N.H. 92 (1973)

NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

March 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McLane, Carleton, Graf, Greene & Brown and G. Peter Guenther (Mr. Kenneth F. Graf orally) for the company.

Cleveland, Waters, & Bass and George L. Manias (Mr. Warren E. Waters orally) for the public utilities commission.

George Charles Bruno, director, and Richard Cotton, attorney, New Hampshire Legal Assistance (Mr. Cotton orally), for Operation Low-Income People.

Harlington Wood, Jr., United States Assistant Attorney General, William B. Cullimore, United States Attorney for New Hampshire, William E. Nelson and Bruce G. Forrest, attorneys, Department of Justice (Mr. Forrest orally), as amicus curiae for the United States.


LAMPRON, J.

Appeal under RSA 541:6, 7 from order No. 10,710 entered on August 24, 1972, by the public utilities commission as a result of an investigation under RSA 378:5 of a proposed tariff change filed by the company on August 6, 1971, to become effective on September 5, 1971. This tariff constituted a 22% composite increase over existing rates and was designed to produce an annual gross revenue increase of $9,950,000. On August 26, 1971, the commission suspended...

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