Gregg v. Laird
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (Boyd, J.).
1Opinion of the CourtStockbridge, J.
The General Assembly of 1892 by an Act, Chapter 387, undertook the regulation of the rates to be charged by Telephone Companies for the service rendered to their subscribers. The rental fixed by the Act was what is known as a flat rate of six dollars and fifty cents per month for one telephone, and a lesser rate where the customer had two or more instruments. The service rendered at that time was what is- called the grounded circuit. As improvements were made in the apparatus, the metallic circuit came into use, and in 1894, the Legislature of that year by Chapter 207, amended the Act of two…
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