City of Columbus v. Public Utilities Commission

This cause comes from the Public Utilities Commission, and the city of Columbus seeks reversal of an order made by *80the commission relative to rates to be charged by The Ohio State Telephone Company in the city of Columbus, Ohio. The order of the commission approves rates in excess of certain rates stipulated in a franchise granted by the city of Columbus to' The Columbus Citizens Telephone Company, in 1899, and the commission claims the right to fix a rate in excess of the provisions of said ordinance, by virtue of a reservation made by the commission in certain merger proceedings in the year…