Commission Telephone Cases (V. 4)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...filing notice of the change with the Commission, as required by law; and that the respondent has failed to keep its accounts as prescribed by law, so that it is impossible to ascertain from its accounts, as they are kept, what the actual financial transactions of the company are. The answer of the respondent telephone company alleges that the respondent is a corporation engaged in furnishing telephone service for its stockholders and incidentally for the business and professional people of Blatteville, and that the respondent is not sure that as such corporation it is a public utility subject to the provisions of chapter 499, Laws of 1907, as1 amended; and that the corporation was organized for the mutual benefit of its stockholders and not for dividends. The respondent admits that its stockholders who have telephones pay therefor about the sum of $5 and not exceeding $10 per year, but in such cases the subscribers themselves are the owners of the telephones; admits the case mentioned in the complaint where wire was strung free of charge for a certain subscriber, but denies that poles were put up at the respondent's expense for this subscriber, as the poles had been placed previously; admits that single line and party line telephones are charged the same rate in the City of Platteville, but alleges that persons placed on party lines were aware of this fact when their service commenced; and admits that it has no schedule of rates, as such, on file in its office, but alleges that the same may be found in the books and papers of the respondent which are open to its subscribers. Wherefore, the respondent company prays that the petition be dismissed. The application of the Platteville, Rewey & Ellenboro Telephone Company for authority to increase its...