Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Alabama Public Service Commission (herein referred to as the “Commission”) and the State of Alabama from a decree of the circuit court of Montgomery County, in equity, setting aside the Commission’s order of April 21, 1954, which denied Southern Bell Tele*316phone and Telegraph Company (herein referred to as the “Company”) the right to put in operation the schedule of increased intrastate rates proposed and filed by it with the Commission on January 20, 1954, and which also ordered the Company to continue in force and effect the same intrastate rates…