State ex rel. City of St. Louis v. Public Service Commission

COOLEY, C.

— This is an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Cole County affirming an order of the Public Service Commission. The city of St. Louis, by complaint to the commission, challenged the right of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to collect a charge of twenty-five cents per month each for equipping with dials telephones attached to private branch exchanges (called in the record P. B. X.) in St. Louis. This rate had been filed with and approved by the commission on March 1, 1926, and was part of the telephone company’s lawfully established tariff when the complaint…