Public Service Commissioners v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Suprem.e Judicial Court on February 1, 1919, under St. 1913, c. 784, § 28, by the public service commissioners against the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, to enforce by a mandatory injunction an order of the public service commission of January 20, 1919, in regard to toll telephone rates within the Commonwealth and a further order of January 31, requiring the defendant to cancel the rates and charges stated in certain proposed…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Suprem.e Judicial Court on February 1, 1919, under St. 1913, c. 784, § 28, by the public service commissioners against the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, to enforce by a mandatory injunction an order of the public service commission of January 20, 1919, in regard to toll telephone rates within the Commonwealth and a further order of January 31, requiring the defendant to cancel the rates and charges stated in certain proposed schedules. The answer of the defendant set forth the matters which are stated in the opinion. The case came on to be heard by…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a bill in equity brought under St. 1913, c. 784, § 28, to enforce by injunction an order of the public service commission dated January 20, 1919, relative to toll telephone rates within the Commonwealth. The case comes before us by reservation for determination upon the bill and answer. The case must be considered upon the footing that the averments of the answer are true where in conflict with those of the bill and that the allegations of the bill are true only so far as admitted or not at variance with facts well pleaded in the answer. Perkins v. Nichols, 11 Allen, 542. American…
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