Legal Opinion
United States v. New York Telephone Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 28, 1946No. 55PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rutledge
This case presents new questions of “original cost” accounting, which arise from an order of the Federal Com munications Commission requiring readjustments in ap-pellee’s accounts. A detailed statement of the facts is necessary to an understanding of the issues. But the short effect of the controversy is that the Commission has required the appellee, New York Telephone Company, to make charges of some $4,166,000 to surplus, with corresponding credits to other accounts; the ultimate effect being substantially to compel the elimination of so-called write-ups from the company’s accounts in order…
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- Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. v. Federal Power CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1943
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