Chillicothe Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission

The ultimate question is whether the order of the Public Utilities Commission, which requires Chillicothe, as soon as required facilities are available, to join with two other telephone companies in furnishing full-period private-line telephone service connecting Commercial’s offices in Chillicothe and Portsmouth with Commercial’s existing private-line telephone service among Columbus, Newark, Lancaster and Zanesville, is unreasonable or unlawful.

The answer to this question requires the determination of the following three elemental questions: (1) Is *403the furnishing of full-period private-line…