Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, J.:

This appeal requires us to determine whether the telephone rates now in effect as the result of respondent commission’s order afford appellant a just and reasonable return. We hold that they do not, that the rates presently enforced are unreasonable, inadequate and confiscatory, and that the collection of the increased rates sought by the utility’s new schedules may no longer be suspended.

This proceeding was initiated by the filing by Bell Telephone Company of Nevada on April 14, 1950 of new schedules of intrastate rates and charges calculated to increase its…