The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29
JUDGE GRANTS INJUNCTION
THE COLLECTION OF INCREASED
PHONE RATES RESTRAINED.

Attorneys for City Council Presented
Petition to Worrill Saturday.
Hearing Set for April 21.
The real fight between the City
Council of Dawson and the Dawson
Talephone Co. to determine whether
the latter shall charge higher rates
for telephone service than those
simulated in the franchise that
was granted by the council has be-
gun.
Saturday Mr.. T. T. Miller of Co.
mmbus, who has been employed as
associate counsel, was in Dawson for
conference with City Attorney L.
C. Hoyl. after which he went to
Cuthbert and presented petition to
Judge Worrill praying that the Daw-
son Telephone Co. be enjoined from
collecting the new rates it recently
nut into effect. A temporary re-
straining order was granted, and a
hearing in Cuthbert was set for April
Dist. The injunction, of which the
following is a copy, was filed in the
office of the clerk of the superior
court Monday mornin gby Mr.. HOyl.
Tho Restraining Order.
The City of Dawson VS.. Dawson
Telephone Co.-PetitiOn for Injunc-
ton, etc. in Terrell Superior Court.
At Chambers, Cuthbert, Ca, March
25th, 1911 The petition in the
above stated case being presented
to me on this day, and the same
having been read and considered, it
is ordered that the defendant Daw-
son Telephone Company show cause
before me at O'Clock a. NJ on the
21st day of April, 1911, at the court
house in Cuthbert, Ga, why the in
junction prayed for should not be
granted. 1t is further ordered that
in the meantime and until said hear
ing the defendant be and it is here
by enjOined and restrained, as also
all officers, agents and employees,
from putting into effect or collecting
from any one of it's subscribers or
patrons in the city of Dawson any
greater rates of tolls or charges
than those provided for in the grant
or franchise mentioned in the petit
ton, tO-wit: $3.50 per month for
residence telephones and $3.50 per
month for business telephones.
1t is further ordered that the de-
PENDANT be served with a copy of the
petition and this order fifteen days
prlor to the date of said hearing as
herein fixed, and that the defendant,
IN the event of filing an answer to
the petition to show cause, be and
II is hereby required to serve a copy
OF said answer on counsel for the
plaintiff five days before the date
h&ed for said hearing. And that all
aHdaVits and documentary evidence
TO be used at said hearing by each
party be served on the opposite par
" at least two days before said hear
ing. VIM G. WORRILL, j. S. c."
What 1t Is About.
The law suit grew out of the action
OF the Dawson Telephone Co. in rails
ing its rates from $3.50 to $500 per
month for residence phones and
rom $3.50 to $3.50 per month for
BUSINESS phones, the council alleg-
ing That the increased charges are
a violation of the terms of the fran
CnIse which was granted to the COM
pany by the city
before raising its rates the tele-
Pnohe company took the matter be-
lore the railroad commission and
9oIalned the consent of that body to
some fine legal points are involv-
Gu and it promises to be one of the
mo interesting and hardest fought
Id" suits that has been before the
courts OF Georgia in long time.