Winfield v. Public Service Commission
Indiana Supreme Court
From Cass Circuit Court; Henry H. Vinton, Special Judge. Suit by Maurice Winfield and others against the Public Service Commission and the Logansport Home Telephone Company. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHarvey, J.
— The complaint in this case alleges that in 1901 the city of Logansport granted to the Logansport Home Telephone Company a “franchise, license and *57permit” to construct and operate a telephone exchange and system of wires, poles, and so forth, in said city, and over and through the highways thereof; that the term of said franchise was forty years; that the franchise fixed maximum rates to be charged for telephone service, providing that under certain circumstances the city might reduce said rates, “but in no event shall the city of Logansport, or said” grantees or their assigns “increase the…
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