Jantzen v. Diller Telephone Co.

I. STATEMENT OF CASE

The protestant-appellant, Diller Telephone Company, challenges the third and last order of the Public Service Commission (PSC), which granted the request of the applicants-appellees, Henry Jantzen and Vern Jantzen, father and son, to receive telephone service from Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company rather than from Diller Telephone, and ordered the Jantzens to pay Diller Telephone $338.91 to cover the latter’s loss of investment. On appeal to the Nebraska Court of Appeals, Diller Telephone assigned as errors, in summary, (1) the PSC’s consideration of certain evidence…