Legal Opinion
State v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 9, 1975No. B-5327PublishedCited by 305 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEAKLEY, Justice.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Respondent, is a public utility furnishing telephone service to the people of Texas, interstate and intrastate. At this time it is statutorily unregulated as to the intrastate rates it charges in Texas. 1
On January BO, 1975, Bell announced a long distance intrastate telephone rate increase to become effective March 1, 1975. It was designed to net Bell additional annual revenue of approximately 45 million dollars. On February 7, 1975, suit was instituted by the Attorney General of Texas in the name of the State of Texas to enjoin the…
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