Barth v. Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Horth, District Judge.

The Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Company, a Nebraska corporation, appellee herein, filed its application with the Nebraska state railway commission for authority to place into effect a revised and advanced schedule of rates at its telephone exchange in the city of Seward, after rebuilding its plant and converting the same from a manual to an automatic system.

Charles F. Barth and Harry A. Cummins and the Seward Chamber of Commerce of Seward, Nebraska, for themselves and others similarly situated, appellants herein, appeared informally at the hearings before the railway…