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JEWELL v. UTILITIES & TRANSPORTATION

No. 44800.

90 Wn.2d 775 (1978)

585 P.2d 1167

FRANK M. JEWELL, ET AL, Appellants, v. WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, ET AL, Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

November 2, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Blankinship (of Montgomery, Purdue, Blankinship & Austin), for appellants.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and James R. Cunningham and Ellis Ross Anderson, Assistants, for respondent State.

C. Lee Coulter (John Robert Jones, of counsel), for respondent General Telephone.

Thomas R. Beierle, for respondent Pacific Northwest Bell.

BRACHTENBACH, J.

Should charitable contributions by privately owned telephone companies be paid by the telephone users or by the companies' stockholders? That is the issue in this case.

In two telephone rate setting cases, the Utilities and Transportation Commission (commission) allowed charitable contributions to be included as part of the expenses of doing business in establishing telephone rates pursuant to RCW 80.01.040(3). This allowance was a change...

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