Perry County Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Public Service Commission

Citations

• 265 Pa. 274
• 108 A. 659
• 1919 Pa. LEXIS 539

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law — Telephone company — Corporations—Refusal to permit extension of lines.</p> <p>1. The Public Service Commission has jurisdiction in the exercise of due discretion to refuse a petition of a telephone company to extend its lines into a district served by another company.</p> <p>2. In such a case the petitioner is not denied any constitutional right under Section 12, Article XVI, of the Constitution which provides that “any association or corporation organized for the purpose or any individual shall have the right to construct and maintain lines of telegraph within this State, and to connect the same with other lines; and the general assembly shall by a general law of uniform operation provide reasonable regulations to give full effect to this section.”</p>