CHICKASAW TEL. CO. v. CORPORATION COM'N

No. 49003.

566 P.2d 437 (1977)

CHICKASAW TELEPHONE COMPANY, Chouteau Telephone Company, Cimarron Telephone Company, Grand Telephone Company, Inc., Oklahoma T & T, Inc., the Totah Telephone Company, Inc., Valliant Telephone Company, Kan-Okla Telephone Association, Inc., and South Central Telephone Association, Inc., Petitioners, v. CORPORATION COMMISSION of the State of Oklahoma, Rex Privett, Chairman, Ray C. Jones, Vice Chairman, Hamp Baker, Commissioner, and the State of Oklahoma, Respondents, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, the real party in interest, Respondent, General Telephone Company of the Southwest, a corporation, Intervenor before the Corporation Commission and a Party in interest, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected July 8, 1977.

Rehearings Denied September 21, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Caplinger, Topeka, Kan., Jesse D. Swift, Sand Springs, for petitioners.

Robert D. Allen, Oklahoma City, for respondent.


BERRY, Justice:

Petitioners filed a complaint with Corporation Commission [Commission] in December 1974, seeking to compel Southwestern Bell Telephone Company [respondent] to provide certain local exchange operator services to independent telephone companies at rates established by Commission.

Prior to this dispute, respondent provided this service to petitioners, and others, on an inter-company contract basis. In 1973 respondent decided to raise the charge...

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