Shaffer v. Public Service Commission
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 12, April T., 1920, by William Staffer, Intervener, from the order of the Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Application Docket, No. 3355, 1920, in the case of William Shaffer, Intervener, v. The Cochran-ton Telephone Company and the Merchants and Farmers Telephone Company, Petitioners, and The Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania, on appeal.
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Appeal, No. 12, April T., 1920, by William Staffer, Intervener, from the order of the Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Application Docket, No. 3355, 1920, in the case of William Shaffer, Intervener, v. The Cochran-ton Telephone Company and the Merchants and Farmers Telephone Company, Petitioners, and The Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania, on appeal. Petition for permission to merge and consolidate the Cochranton Telephone Company and the Merchants and Farmers Telephone Company. The merger was approved by the Public Service Commission in the following…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, J.,
When our present State Constitution was adopted, the telephone had not been invented. Several years *604passed after its invention before its possibilities in commercial and home nse were at all recognized. When it was desired to create corporate organizations in Pennsylvania to take advantage of these possibilities, it was found that there was no law which permitted the incorporation of telephone companies and the only way then open by which the benefits resulting from the new invention could be widely enjoyed by the public was to make use of the likeness existing between…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Gyger v. Phila. etc. Ry. Co., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1890
- Cochranton Telephone Co. v. Public Service CommissionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
- Tyrone Gas & Water Co. v. Borough of TyroneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
- Cochranton Telephone Co. v. Public Service CommissionSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1918
- Consolidated Telephone Co. v. Public Service CommissionSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
3Cited by3 opinions
- Shaffer v. Public Service CommissionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
- Schaffer v. Public Service CommissionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
- Mitchell v. Public Service CommissionSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1922