Legal Opinion
Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 1, 1930No. 90PublishedCited by 246 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
This is an appeal from a final decree of the District Court, composed of three judges as required by section 266 of the Judicial Code, enjoining the enforcement of an order of the Illinois Commerce Commission which prescribed rates for telephone service in the City of Chicago, upon the ground that the order was confiscatory and hence was in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (38 F. (2d) 77). The order of the. Commission wg.s made on August 16, 1923, to be effective October 1, 1923. It reduced rates for four classes of coin box service and thus applied to a large…
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