Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. State ex rel. Potter

This is an appeal by the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company from a judgment of the circuit court of Hinds county, sustaining a writ of certiorari to review an order of the state Railroad Commission fixing telephone rates for services in this state and adjudging said order of the commission to be null and void, and a refusal of supersedeas on this appeal. The case, in short, is as follows:

After a. hearing on an application to the Railroad Commission by the telephone company to increase its schedule of rates to be charged for services in this state, the commission in December, 1922,…