State Public Utilities Commission ex rel. Macon County Telephone Co. v. Bethany Mutual Telephone Ass'n
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
On the petition of the Macon County Telephone Company, a corporation operating a telephone system in the viL lage of Bethany and vicinity, in Macon county, the State Public Utilities Commission ordered appellant, the Bethany Mutual Telephone Association, forthwith to cease from constructing or maintaining its telephone system in the same locality because it had not obtained from the commission a certificate of convenience and necessity provided for by section 55 of the act entitled “An act to provide for the regulation of public utilities.” (Laws of 1913, p. 460.) The appellant feeling…
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