Bennett v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.

*327This case arose when the Telephone Company, on November 12, 1947, put into effect a new general rate schedule for the city of Colorado Springs applicable to business and residence telephones and to extensions. This schedule replaced one that had been “substantially unaltered since prior to 1909.” Plaintiffs in error, who were plaintiffs in the trial court, as subscribers to the telephone service in Colorado Springs, sought an injunction against the company “from charging or collecting rates for local telephone service in excess of the rates in effect prior to November 12, 1947,” as to either…