State v. Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The Railroad and Warehouse Commission upon its own motion made an order requiring the Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Company to show cause why the commission should not modify its rates, tolls, charges and regulations.
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The Railroad and Warehouse Commission upon its own motion made an order requiring the Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Company to show cause why the commission should not modify its rates, tolls, charges and regulations. The telephone company alleged that its rates, tolls, and charges did not produce an adequate return upon the fair value of its property and that to reduce its revenues would make it impossible for it to maintain its property in condition to furnish satisfactory service and would amount to taking its property without compensation contrary to the provisions of the Federal…
1Opinion of the Court
Lees, C.
While the telephone properties of the country were under Federal control and in accordance with orders of the postmaster general, the Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Company placed in effect certain rates for telephone service in this state and was maintaining them when such control ceased. Such rates were in excess of those theretofore approved by the Railroad and Warehouse Commission.
*249In view of these facts the commission, on its own motion, made an order requiring the company to show cause why its rates should not be modified. It directed that service be made upon the company by…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Robbins v. Chicago CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1867
- Green v. BogueSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Davis v. Swedish-American National BankSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1899
- Stewart v. DuncanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- Robinson v. Board of CommissionersIndiana Supreme Court · 1871
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