McCollum v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

The bill, which was filed in December, 1930', charges that defendant is the exclusive operator of a telephone system in the City of Chattanooga, and that for some years complainant has subscribed for and used one of defendant’s telephones, and that the rate charged, and which he has been forced to pay, is unreasonable and unjust. The concluding paragraph of the bill is as follows :

“Complainant avers that the Railroad and Public Utilities Commission of the State of Tennessee, by an order issued on, 'to-wit, November 7, 1928, effective on or about June 1, 1929, fixed and established the present…