Case Name: The City of Newark v. The Public Utilities Commission; Johnson v. The Public Utilities Commission
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1921-07-05
Citations: 103 Ohio St. 158
Docket Number: Nos. 16428 and 16429
Parties: The City of Newark v. The Public Utilities Commission. Johnson v. The Public Utilities Commission.
Judges: Marshall, C. J., Johnson, Hough and Wanamaker, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 103
Pages: 158–163

Head Matter:
The City of Newark v. The Public Utilities Commission. Johnson v. The Public Utilities Commission.
Public utilities commission — Jurisdiction — Telephone companies — Merger of corporations — Authority to increase rates — Existing municipal franchise — Power of municipality to establish rates — Constitutional law.
(Nos. 16428 and 16429
Decided July 5, 1921.)
Error to the Public Utilities Commission.
Mr. Henry C. Ashcraft, city solicitor; Mr. Phil B. Smythe and Mr. Frank A. Bolton, for plaintiffs in error.
Mr. John G. Price, attorney general, and Mr. E. E. Corn, for the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio; Mr. Karl E. Burr and Mr. Chas. S. Maltby, for The Central Union Telephone Co.; Mr. Edward Kibler and Mr. C. A. Radcliffe, for The Newark Telephone Co., defendants in error.

Opinion:
It is hereby ordered and adjudged that the order of the public utilities commission be, and the same is hereby, reversed. Four members of the court concur in this judgment. But inasmuch as the judges who. concur are not agreed upon the grounds of reversal, no authoritative opinion setting forth the reasons of the judgment is filed in the case. The views of individual judges may, however, be stated in separate' opinions.
Order reversed.
Marshall, C. J., Johnson, Hough and Wanamaker, JJ., concur.