City of Whitwell v. Fowler

The Court denies the application of appellants to withhold disposition of this case until there arrives here a case said to be of a similar nature and said to be now pending in some other Court.

This suit originated as a proceedings instituted by Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company before the Tennessee Public Service Commission for the purpose, in so far as pertinent here, of causing 54 telephone exchanges to be placed in different rate groups.

At the time these proceedings were instituted, the various rate groups in existence were those created by the Commission in 1954. They were…