Dworken v. Public Utilities Commission

By the Court.

On April 1, 1924, The Ohio Bell Telephone Company filed a new schedule for the Cleveland,1 Ohio, area, increasing certain of its rates effective 30 days thereafter. On April 29, 1924, a complaint was filed against the proposed schedule by the city of Cleveland through its Director of Law. Thereupon the commission ordered that it enter upon a hearing concerning the propriety of the increased rates, that the operation and use of the rates in such schedule be suspended for 120 days from April 1,1924, and that the assignment of the hearing on such schedule be deferred for a further…