Case Name: The Ohio State Telephone Co. v. The State of Ohio
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1919-06-13
Citations: 100 Ohio St. 529
Docket Number: No. 16253
Parties: The Ohio State Telephone Co. v. The State of Ohio.
Judges: Nichols, C. J., Jones, Matthias, Johnson, Donahue, Wanamakee and Robinson, JJ., con-' cur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 100
Pages: 529–530

Head Matter:
The Ohio State Telephone Co. v. The State of Ohio.
Telephone companies — Intrastate rates established, how — Ohio Public Utilities Commission or U. S. Postmaster General — Federal war power and state police power.
(No. 16253
Decided June 13, 1919.)
Error to the Court of Appeals of Franklin county.
Messrs. Daugherty, Todd & Rarey; Mr. S. H. Tolles and Mr. Stuart R. Bolin, for plaintiff in error.
Mr. John G. Price, attorney general; Mr. B. W. Gearheart; Mr. Robert J. Odell and Mr. Edward E. Corn, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
It is ordered that the judgments of the court of appeals and of the court of common pleas in this cause be reversed on the authority of Dakota Central Telephone Company et al. v. The State of South Dakota, ex rel., in the supreme court of the United States, decided June 2, 1919, [250 U. S., 163]. It is further ordered that all injunctions and restraining orders issued by said court of common pleas and court of appeals be, and the same hereby are, dissolved, and this cause is remanded to the court of common pleas with instructions to overrule the demurrer of the State of Ohio to the answer of The Ohio State Telephone Company, and for such other proceedings in accordance with this judgment.
Judgments reversed, and cause remanded.
Nichols, C. J., Jones, Matthias, Johnson, Donahue, Wanamakee and Robinson, JJ., con-' cur.