City of Dewitt v. Public Service Commission

Conley Byrd, Justice.

Appellant, the City of DeWitt, on December 2, 1965, passed an ordinance requiring all utility companies doing business within the city to maintain a business office in the city. On December 18, appellee General Telephone Company of the Southwest filed its complaint with the Public Service Commission pursuant to Ark. Stat. Ann. § 73-208(d) (Repl. 1957), alleging that the ordinance was unreasonable, unjust and unlawful and, in the alternative, that the additional expense caused by the ordinance be passed on to the defendant city rather than to all telephone company…