Illinois Bell Telephone Co. v. Commerce Commission

Appellee filed its bill in the circuit court of Sangamon county asking that appellants be restrained by injunction from enforcing the provisions and penalties of the Public Utilities act against it, its officers or employees, by reason of its charging or collecting a schedule of rates for local telephone service in the city of Momence set forth in a certain rate schedule which it contends became effective by operation of law because of the failure of the Commerce Commission to enter a final order within ten months in a certain proceeding filed before the commission requesting authority to put…