Legal Opinion
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Department of Public Utilities
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 20, 1954PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
This appeal by the company under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 25, § 5, as appearing in St. 1953, c. 575, § 1, is to review orders of the department entered on September 30, 1953, and later amended, 1 which disallowed rates and charges filed by the company on December 10, 1952, to take effect on January 10, 1953, and April 1, 1953, and ordered the filing of new schedules.
The disallowed rates were designed to increase current earnings by $10,225,000. As in Department of Public Utilities v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. 325 Mass. 281, 283-284, the department suspended the application of the…
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