Mississippi Public Service Commission v. Hughes Telephone Co.

COFER, Justice,

for the Court:

Appellee Hughes Telephone Company, Incorporated, a public utility, affording telephone service to upward of 5,000 customers in Lauderdale, Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, and Newton Counties, filed with appellant Mississippi Public Service Commission a new and substantially higher schedule of rates it proposed to charge its customers. After hearing, appellant (Commission) fixed a ten percent increase. From this action of the commission, appellee (Hughes) appealed to the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, which court reversed the commission…