AMERICAN DISTRICT TELEGRAPH CO. v. YARBOROUGH

No. 42712.

273 So.2d 65 (1973)

AMERICAN DISTRICT TELEGRAPH COMPANY, a Florida Corporation, Petitioner, v. Jess YARBOROUGH et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 7, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wofford H. Stidham, of Holland & Knight, Bartow, for petitioner.

Earl B. Hadlow, of Mahoney, Hadlow, Chambers & Adams, Jacksonville, Walter H. Alford and Nathan H. Wilson, Jacksonville, for Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co.

Prentice P. Pruitt, Chief Staff Counsel and Donald R. Alexander, Tallahassee, Staff Counsel, Florida Public Service Commission, for respondents.


McCAIN, Justice.

On February 19, 1971 Southern Bell undertook to revise the rates charged to its customers for "metallic channels" (as opposed to the newer and more efficient wire channels) by announcing that in the future metallic channels would be furnished to customers only when they were available and not needed for other purposes and that rates would be based on an individual cost basis for each customer. The effect of this change on users, primarily burglar...

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