Penn-Harris Hotel Co. v. Pa. P. U. C.

Argued November 15, 1949. The Public Utility Commission dismissed the joint complaint of Pennsylvania Hotels Association (hereafter called the Association) and Penn-Harris Hotel Company (called Penn-Harris) against The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania (called Bell), and the complainants appealed separately. They charged in effect that Bell violated the Public Utility Law of May 28, 1937, P. L. 1053, as amended, 66 P. S. § 1101, et seq., by omitting from its filed tariffs the scale of commissions paid by Bell to the hotels for services rendered by the hotels in connection with the…