People Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.

Fellows, J.'

(dissenting). Admittedly the 4% per cent, contract (now 4 per cent.) is the sole cause of this litigation. The attorney general, I think, makes it clear in briefs and upon oral argument that he does not desire to paralyze the business of the State by ousting the defendant completely from doing telephone business in the State, and, as I understand the opinion of my Brother Clark, the judgment of ouster he says should be entered does not go so far. In other words, the defendant will “be ousted of right to have credit in a computation of rates for payments to the American company…