Mitchell v. Public Service Commission

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

The Constitution of this State provides (article XVI, section 12) : “No telegraph company, shall consolidate with, or hold a controlling interest in the stock or bonds of any other telegraph company owning a competing line, or acquire, by purchase or otherwise, any other competing line of telegraph.”

It was decided in the case of Cochranton Telephone Co. v. P. S. C., 263 Pa. 506 (affirming 70 Pa. Superior Ct. 212), that a corporation chartered as a telegraph company but doing only a telephone business could not purchase the lines or stock and franchises of a competing…