State Public Utilities Commission ex rel. Pike County Telephone Co. v. Noble

This is an appeal from an order and judgment entered by the circuit court of Sangamon county affirming an order made by the State Public Utilities Commission requiring the appellants, and each of' them, their officers, agents and employees, to desist from operating a telephone exchange until a certificate of convenience and necessity should be obtained from said commission. The petition upon which this order was entered was filed with the Public Utilities Commission by the Pike County Telephone Company, a corporation doing a general telephone business in Pike county, Illinois, and having a…