State ex rel. South Missouri Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission of Missouri

PHIL H. COOK, Special Judge.

All of these appeals from judgments of the Circuit Court of Cole County arise from orders of the Public Service Commission of Missouri, appellant herein, and involve the problem of telephone service to the communities of Bellflower and Liege in Montgomery County, Missouri.

Cases numbered 24,453, 24,454 and 24,-457 all arise from one order of the Public Service Commission. This order of the commission ordered respondent, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, to provide telephone service in the “disputed area”. Southwestern Bell resisted this order in the Public…