Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

The telephone company, an Illinois corporation, owns and operates a telephone system in the City of Peoria and vicinity. It brought suit on June 18,1924, against appellants (members of the state Commerce Commission and Attorney General of the State of Illinois) to enjoin them from enforcing or attempting to enforce a schedule of rates alleged to be confiscatory, and from taking any steps or proceedings against the company by reason of the collection by it of nates and charges under, another and higher schedule. A motion to dismiss the bill was overruled ¿ and, upon the bill and attached…