Board of Supervisors v. Commonwealth ex rel. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia, hereinafter called the Company, is a Virginia corporation furnishing telephone service in about one third of the geographic area of the State. It is “a transmission company,” within the meaning of section 156 of the Virginia Constitution and chapters 159-160 of the Code of Virginia, and accordingly its rates for intrastate service are subject to regulation by the State Corporation Commission.

On July 31, 1926, the Commission, after a lengthy hearing, entered an order1 granting an increase in rates to the Company. Since then the Company…