Chambers Rural Telephone Co. v. K. & M. Telephone Co.

This is an appeal in a proceeding before the Nebraska State Railway Commission upon an application of the Chambers Rural Telephone Company, Inc., for a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing it to operate as a wire common carrier of messages in Garfield, Holt, and Wheeler Counties, Nebraska. A protest to the granting of the application was filed by the K. & M. Telephone Company, Inc. The railway commission denied the application. The applicant’s motion for rehearing was overruled and it has appealed.

The applicant is a corporation which was organized on September 8, 1964.…