Gilman v. Somerset Farmers Co-Operative Telephone Co.

Upon complaint and after notice and hearing, the Public Utilities Commission ordered and required a physical connection of the lines of the Maine Telephone and Telegraph Company and those of the Somerset Farmers Co-Operative Telephone Company, in localities where both maintain exchanges, to afford public telephone service, beyond the reach of either line alone, chiefly for other than local conversations.

The Commission also required the transfer of messages from the lines of the Maine Company to those of the Somerset Company, and vice versa, “at the point of connection nearest the origin of…