Opinion ID: 1677397
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Heading: Loss of Investment

Text: The difference between the investment loss of $338.91 found by the PSC and the $1,261.21 claimed by Diller Telephone rests on the PSC's refusal to include in its computation the costs of physically disconnecting the Jantzens' line, the costs Diller Telephone foresaw in keeping a record of the Jantzens' removal from its service, and Diller Telephone's investment in its plant. In Hartman v. Glenwood Tel. Membership Corp., 197 Neb. 359, 249 N.W.2d 468 (1977), we rejected Glenwood's theory that the subscriber who succeeded in changing his service would have to pay investment costs for sections other than the one that served him. We found reasonable the PSC's calculation, which included the depreciated investment cost per subscriber on the section serving the successful subscriber and connection costs for that section, plus the cost of removing the drop line to the subscriber's residence. The PSC's computation of Diller Telephone's investment loss as consisting of the depreciated value of the items connecting the second farm to the service provided by Diller Telephone is not arbitrary and capricious, but reasonable.