NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TEL. CO. v. DEPT. OF PUB. UTIL.


371 Mass. 67 (1976)

354 N.E.2d 860

NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY vs. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 14, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Bleakney, Jr. (C. Duane Aldrich & Dennis Tourse with him) for New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Terence P. O'Malley & Michael Eby, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Department of Public Utilities.

Stanley U. Robinson, III, pro se.

Present: REARDON, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


BRAUCHER, J.

The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company (Company) asserts that the Department of Public Utilities (Department), in regulating its rates, has not taken adequate account of the impact of inflation. In 1974 the Company sought increased annual revenues of $200 million; late in 1975 the Department allowed increases designed to produce $93 million. After argument of this appeal in May, 1976, pending our decision...

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