State Ex Rel. American Telechronometer Co. v. Baker

July 1, 1930, the department of public works of Washington entered an order in its cause No. 5896, directing that West Coast Telephone Company (the owner of the telephone system in the city of Everett, as successor to Puget Sound Telephone Company)

“ . . . discontinue the use of telechronometers in Everett and vicinity, and disconnect and remove the instruments and appliances from its telephone plant, ’ ’

the order further providing that the telephone company return to flat rate service at rates which had been in effect several years before. American Tele-chronometer Company, the owner of the…