Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Public Service Commission

WOLFE, Chief Justice.

The Commission commenced this proceeding to inquire into the reasonableness of the differences between the schedule of rates for intrastate toll service and the schedule for Long Lines interstate toll service. It found that the existing differences were unwarranted and discriminatory. It also found that there was no reasonable basis for any differences between the two schedules and ordered the schedule of intrastate rates reduced to the level of Long Lines rate. Mountain States objected to the new rate, not on the grounds that it was inherently unreasonable, but because…