Legal Opinion
Board of Public Utility Commissioners v. New York Telephone Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 12, 1926No. 567PublishedCited by 181 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
This is an appeal from a decree of the district court— three judges sitting, § 266, Judicial Code — -which granted a temporary injunction restraining the enforcement of certain telephone rates.
The company owns and operates á telephone system in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. In the territory served in New Jersey there is a number of local areas. Service between telephones in the same area is exchange service, and that between telephones in different areas is toll service. The latter includes both intrastate and interstate business. The system is used to give exchange and toll service…
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