Case Name: DAYTON (City) v. ALLEN et al
Court: Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1924-07-29
Citations: 2 Ohio Law Abs. 556
Docket Number: No. 54620
Parties: DAYTON (City) v. ALLEN et al
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 2
Pages: 556–556

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.