MacLeod v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. The case is stated in the opinion. The respondent through its officers and employees is now operating the telephone system owned by it as an instrumentality of the Federal Government.
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CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. The case is stated in the opinion. The respondent through its officers and employees is now operating the telephone system owned by it as an instrumentality of the Federal Government. It follows, therefore, that, if the power to regulate intrastate rates has been reserved to the States by the joint resolution under consideration, the respondent is the proper agency hi Massachusetts against which the exercise of that power should be directed. Jurisdiction of Massachusetts over the regulation of intrastate telephone rates,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
The petitioners, composing the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Massachusetts, filed their bill against the respondent to compel it to enforce certain telephone rates for intrastate business established in conformity to the state law and to forbid the putting into effect of conflicting rates fixed by the Postmaster General in a schedule by him established and the enforcement of which he had ordered.
On the petition and answers the case was reserved for the consideration of the Supreme Judicial Court where it was finally decided. The court in a lucid opinion, speaking through Mr.…
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