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• Title: State Alabama Et Al. v. Southern Bell
• Author : Supreme Court of Alabama
• Release Date : January 20, 1962
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 69 KB

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HARWOOD, Justice. We are here confronted with litigation that has dragged its way through the processes of the Alabama Public
Service Commission, the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, and the Supreme Court of Alabama for over eight years. The interests of the rate payers, of the Southern Bell Telephone Company, and of the State of Alabama demand that this litigation
be concluded. As observed by the trial court in its decree: 'Thus for over six years since the Company filed its application
for increased rates, this matter is still unsettled and in litigation. The public does not know that rates it has paid for
telephone service over the past six years, nor indeed the price it is now paying. The utility does not know what earnings
can be depended upon for the past six years on its operations in Alabama, during which time substantial expansion of its plant
and facilities has been undertaken, nor does it yet know what return on its investment in Alabama might be expected from its
present business or for its future plans.' Section 52, Title 48, Code of Alabama 1940, pertaining to the fixing of rates of
public utilities by the Public Service Commission provides:

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