MISS. PUBLIC SERVICE COM'N v. HUGHES TEL. CO.

No. 51518.

376 So.2d 1074 (1979)

MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION v. HUGHES TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 14, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.O. Dillard, A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Bennett E. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellant.

Creekmore & Creekmore, James H. Creekmore, Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROBERTSON, P.J., and BROOM and COFER, JJ.


COFER, Justice, for the Court:

Appellee Hughes Telephone Company, Incorporated, a public utility, affording telephone service to upward of 5,000 customers in Lauderdale, Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, and Newton Counties, filed with appellant Mississippi Public Service Commission a new and substantially higher schedule of rates it proposed to charge its customers. After hearing, appellant (Commission) fixed a ten percent increase. From this action of the commission, appellee...

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