Legal Opinion
New York Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 17, 1956PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFroessel, J.
The single narrow issue presented on this appeal is whether or not the Public Service Commission, in a telephone rate proceeding under section 97 of the Public Service Law, erred in refusing to receive evidence offered by petitioner of the reproduction cost less depreciation of its physical plant. The weight to be given such evidence, as we shall indicate later, is quite another matter.
*576Until the 1944 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Federal Power Comm. v. Hope Natural Gas Co. (320 U. S. 591), the resolution of the issue before us would have required consideration of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Smyth v. AmesSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Opp Cotton Mills, Inc. v. Administrator of the Wage & Hour Division of the Department of LaborSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Railroad Commission v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Meltzer v. KoenigsbergNew York Court of Appeals · 1951
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3Cited by32 opinions
- State Ex Rel. Utilities Commission v. General Telephone Co. of the SoutheastSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1972
- Davenport Water Co. v. Iowa State Commerce CommissionSupreme Court of Iowa · 1971
- Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. State Corp. CommissionSupreme Court of Kansas · 1963
- State Ex Rel. Missouri Water Co. v. Public Service CommissionSupreme Court of Missouri · 1957
- Union Electric Co. v. Illinois Commerce CommissionIllinois Supreme Court · 1979
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