Cochranton Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 97, April T., 1918, by plaintiffs, from order of Public Service Commission, No. 567,1916, dismissing petition in case of Cochranton Telephone Co. and Merchants & Farmers Tel. Co. & Petroleum Telephone Company of Oil City et al. v. Public Service Commission. Petition for the approval of an agreement of consolidation of two telephone companies.
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Appeal, No. 97, April T., 1918, by plaintiffs, from order of Public Service Commission, No. 567,1916, dismissing petition in case of Cochranton Telephone Co. and Merchants & Farmers Tel. Co. & Petroleum Telephone Company of Oil City et al. v. Public Service Commission. Petition for the approval of an agreement of consolidation of two telephone companies. The case turned on the question whether a telephone company was a telegraph company within the meaning of Sec. 12, Article NYII, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania. The Public Service Commission held that the consolidation was forbidden by…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The question presented for our consideration arises on an appeal from an order of the Public Service Commission. The Cochranton Telephone Company and the Mer- ' chants’ and Farmers’ Telephone Company presented an application to the commission for the approval of an agreement of' consolidation and merger of the rights, franchises and property of the two companies. This application was refused by the commission for the reason that the companies are subject to the provisions of Section 12 of Article 17 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth which forbids the…
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