Kansas City Long Distance Telephone Co. v. Reed

Citations

• 111 Kan. 452
• 207 P. 763
• 1922 Kan. LEXIS 275

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Telephone Rates — Fixed by Order oj Public Utilities Commission — Temporary. Injunction by District Court. It is not error for a district court to grant a temporary injunction against an order made by the public utilities commission adjudging current telephone rates to be “just, reasonable, compensatory, and lawful,” where the evidence submitted on the application for the temporary injunction tends to show that the rates are unjust and unreasonable and do not provide an adequate return on the property, according to the valuation placed .upon it by its owners, and the order was made without certain evidence which the company, at the request of the commission, had agreed to furnish and was made without notice to the company that it would be made at that time in the absence of the evidence requested.</p>