Case ID: ohio-law-abs_2/html/0556-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SNBDIKER, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 560
    DAYTON (City) v. ALLEN et al
    Common Pleas, Montgomery County
    No. 54620.
    Decided July 29, 1924
    681. JURISDICTION — 549 GC. confines all cases involving the control of the Public Utilities Commission to the Supreme Court.
    1165. TELEPHONE COMPANY — 641-61 GC., requires the Public Utilities Commission to fix rates before authorizing consolidation of two or more telephone companies.
    Attorneys — Not given.
   SNBDIKER, J.

Epitomized Opinion

The Commission ordered the consolidation of the Bell Telephone Co. and the Ohio State Telephone Co. without establishing new rates. After the consolidation and while a petition of the Bell Telephone Co. to establish new rates was pending before the Commission, the plaintiff filed this suit for an injunction to restrain the enforcing of payment of the new rates. On general demurrer to the answer the court sustained the demurrer to the petition, holding:

1. 614-61 GC. enjoins upon the Commission the duty of establishing new rates before authorizing the consolidation of two or more telephone companies.

2. No other court than the Supreme Court has the authority to control the Public Utilities Commlission in the exercise of its powers or to determine in a litigated case whether they have violated those powers.

3. Although the Commission is not made a party defendant to this action, its powers and orders are indirectly interfered with.