Blue Grass State Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission

WADDILL, Commissioner.

The primary issue presented by this appeal is whether the Public Service Commission (hereinafter referred to as Commission) properly refused to grant the Blue Grass State Telephone Company (hereinafter referred to as Blue Grass) a certificate of convenience and necessity to operate a telephone system in the City of Jenkins and its environs.

The previous owner of this system having placed it in receivership, the United States District Court, on December 6, 1961, directed that its assets be sold to Continental Telephone Company upon a bid of $120,000. On January 11, 1962,…