SOUTHERN MESSAGE SERV. v. LA. PUBLIC SERV. COM'N

No. 89-CA-2121.

554 So.2d 47 (1989)

SOUTHERN MESSAGE SERVICE, INC., Appellee, v. LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION and Cameron Telephone Company, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 11, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Field, Gary, Field, Landry & Dornier, Baton Rouge, Oliver Stockwell, Thomas Henning, Stockwell, Sievert, Viccellio, Clements & Shaddock, Lake Charles, Robert Rieger, Jr., for appellants.

Carlos Spaht, Baton Rouge, for appellee.


DENNIS, Justice.

In this case we must determine the proper construction of the exemption granted land line telephone companies in the radio common carrier statute, La.R.S. 45:1501-1504. The Public Service Commission issued an order authorizing Cameron Telephone, a land line telephone company, to construct and operate a radio tower in Lake Charles for the purpose of conducting pager operations in the Lake Charles metropolitan area. Southern Message Service, the certificated...

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