Legal Opinion
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company v. Public Utilities Commission
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 10, 1974PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WERNICK, Justice.
On September 13, 1973 plaintiff, New England Telephone & Telegraph Company (hereinafter “New England”), filed with the defendant, Public Utilities Commission, a general revision of its schedule of Maine Intrastate Telephone Rates. The revised rates were intended to produce for New England a 9% increase in its revenues. On June 13, 1974 the Commission entered a rate order authorizing rates calculated to provide New England a 5.6% increase in revenues.
By the instant proceeding New England has invoked the jurisdiction of this Court, as New England conceives it to be conferred by…
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