Consolidated Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission

Citations

• 73 Pa. Super. 110
• 1919 Pa. Super. LEXIS 183

Syllabus

<p>Telephone companies — Connections—Through service — Authority of Public Service Commission to compel — Act of July 86, 1918, P. L. 187k — Article II, section l(v), and article V, section 9.</p> <p>Under tbe provisions of article II, section l(v), and article V, section 9, of tbe Public Service Company Law, tbe Public Service Commission may order the connection of two telephone companies to be made and through service to be established, only when efficient service can be obtained and public necessity exists therefor, and the localities are not reached by the lines of either company alone or such service is not already established or provided for.</p> <p>Where the Public Service Commission has found, upon competent evidence, that no necessity exists for the making of the connection which the applicant seeks to compel, and has further found that through traffic and communication between the different localities affected has already been provided for, and that adequate service is being rendered, the complaint demanding a physical connection between the two telephone companies is properly dismissed.</p>