Illinois Glass Co. v. Chicago Telephone Co.

Mr. Chibe Justicb Cartwright

delivered the opinion of the court:

On January 4, 1889, an ordinance of the city of Chicago was passed authorizing the appellee, the Chicago Telephone Company, to construct, maintain and operate its lines of telephone wires in said city for twenty years. It was required to file with its acceptance of the ordinance a schedule showing the rates then charged for telephone service, and was prohibited from increasing to its existing or future subscribers the rates so established. The appellee accepted the ordinance and filed its schedule of rates showing that it charged…