State ex rel. Buffum Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal fronr Cole Circuit Court. — Eon. J. G. Slate, Judge, (1) The enforcement of physical connection and interchange service between carriers, railroad compánies, telegraph companies, telephone companies, or between such a company and customers, under reasonable conditions, through switches, spur tracks, or -connecting wires, is an exercise of the power of regulation, and not an act to be accomplished only through an exercise of the right of eminent domain.
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Appeal fronr Cole Circuit Court. — Eon. J. G. Slate, Judge, (1) The enforcement of physical connection and interchange service between carriers, railroad compánies, telegraph companies, telephone companies, or between such a company and customers, under reasonable conditions, through switches, spur tracks, or -connecting wires, is an exercise of the power of regulation, and not an act to be accomplished only through an exercise of the right of eminent domain. In the instant case, the order of the Public' Service Commission requiring the Buffum Telephone Company, at the expense of the Auxvasse…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This is an appeal by the Public Service Commission from a judgment of the circuit court of Cole County, setting aside an order of the Commission, which required that a physical connection be made at the town of Auxvasse in Callaway County between the Auxvasse Mutual Telephone Company and the Buffum Telephone Company.
The proceedings before the Commission were upon the complaint of the Auxvasse Company asking that the Buffum Company be required to receive and transmit long distance messages over its lines from the members and 'subscribers of the Auxvasse Company, that they might thereby have…
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