State ex rel. Blaine v. Wisconsin Telephone Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This is an action by the state, brought originally in this court on relation of the attorney general, to permanently, enjoin the defendant company from charging highe,^. rates for intrastate messages than the rates fixed by the railroad commission of the state on September 1, 1907. The company, which controls eighty per cent, of the long-distance-ielephone business in the state, answered alleging that on July 31, 1918, the President of the United States took full control and…
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This is an action by the state, brought originally in this court on relation of the attorney general, to permanently, enjoin the defendant company from charging highe,^. rates for intrastate messages than the rates fixed by the railroad commission of the state on September 1, 1907. The company, which controls eighty per cent, of the long-distance-ielephone business in the state, answered alleging that on July 31, 1918, the President of the United States took full control and possession of its lines, pursuant to a joint resolution of Congress authorizing such action in the exercise of the war…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, C. J.
A number of very important and interesting questions were debated in the present case with ability and force. We shall not attempt to discuss them all in this *201opinion. Most if not all of them will doubtless be presented to the supreme court of the United States in the near future and will there receive comprehensive treatment, and, as that court speaks the final word on all such subjects, it seems that it would be a work of supererogation for this court to write at length upon them now. We feel, however, that when so much labor and ability have been expended in the preparation and argument of…
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