Shafor v. Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the Public Utilities Commission. The Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Company, an Ohio corporation, is the owner and operator of a telephone system, its principal exchange being in the city of Cincinnati. It has exchanges also in the country, cities and villages within a radius of fifty miles from said city and has in the aggregate eighty thousand subscribers.
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Error to the Public Utilities Commission. The Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Company, an Ohio corporation, is the owner and operator of a telephone system, its principal exchange being in the city of Cincinnati. It has exchanges also in the country, cities and villages within a radius of fifty miles from said city and has in the aggregate eighty thousand subscribers. It has the sole use and occupancy for telephone purposes of the public streets and alleys in said city and is the only telephone company operating therein. It owns and operates long-distance telephone lines between the…
1Opinion of the CourtNewman, J.
The purpose of this proceeding before the public utilities commission, as stated by counsel, was to have established a direct toll service between plaintiff in error and the other subscribers of The Hamilton Home Telephone Company in Butler county and the subscribers of The Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Company in Cincinnati and its suburbs, so that a subscriber of The Hamilton Home Telephone Company, through his own instrument in his own home or office or place of business, might call up any subscriber of The Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Company in Cincinnati or its suburbs,…
2Cited by3 opinions
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