Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Decided November 3, 1949. Davis F. Stakely wrote the opinion for the court.

42 So. 2d 655 · Cited 61 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co. · 282 U.S. 133
• Bluefield Water Works & Improvement Co. v. Public Service Commission · 262 U.S. 679
• Colorado-Wyoming Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission · 324 U.S. 626
• So. Bell T. T. Co. v. Georgia Pub. Ser. Comm. · 49 S.E.2d 38
• Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Georgia Public Service Commission · 203 Ga. 832
• North Alabama Motor Express, Inc. v. Rookis · 12 So. 2d 183
• Alabama Public Service Commission v. Crow · 22 So. 2d 721
• Avery Freight Lines, Inc. v. Persons · 32 So. 2d 886
• Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · 301 U.S. 292
• Morgan v. United States · 298 U.S. 468
• Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Wellman · 143 U.S. 339
• Board of Public Utility Commissioners v. New York Telephone Co. · 271 U.S. 23
• Newton v. Consolidated Gas Co. of NY · 258 U.S. 165
• Banton v. Belt Line Railway Corp. · 268 U.S. 413
• Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Department of Public Works · 268 U.S. 39
• City of Houston v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · 259 U.S. 318
• Ohio Utilities Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · 267 U.S. 359
• Alabama Power Co. v. City of Fort Payne · 187 So. 632
• Alabama Public Service Commission v. Nunis · 39 So. 2d 409
• Avery Freight Lines, Inc. v. White · 18 So. 2d 394
• Brush Electric Co. v. City of Galveston · 262 U.S. 443
• Denney v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. · 276 U.S. 97
• Patterson v. Mobile Gas Co. · 271 U.S. 131
• Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. v. Slattery · 25 N.E.2d 482
• State v. Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Co. · 284 N.W. 294

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• Continental Telephone Co. v. ALA. PUB. SERV. COM'N · 427 So. 2d 981
• General Telephone Co. v. Ala. Pub. Service Com'n · 424 So. 2d 1288
• ALA. PUBLIC SERV. COM'N v. South Cent. Bell · 348 So. 2d 443
• State v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegram Company · 148 So. 2d 229
• Gen. Tel. Co. of Se v. Alabama Pub. Serv. Com'n · 335 So. 2d 151
• Ala. Power Co. v. ALA. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION · 390 So. 2d 1017
• City of Norfolk v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. · 192 Va. 292
• Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. · 106 So. 2d 163
• Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Jones · 267 P.2d 634
• Continental Tel. Co. v. ALABAMA PUBLIC SERV. COM'N · 376 So. 2d 1358
• Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission · 201 Md. 170
• Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Railway Co. · 341 U.S. 341
• Ball v. Jones · 132 So. 2d 120
• Pittsburgh v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission · 370 Pa. 305
• State v. Alabama Public Service Commission · 307 So. 2d 521
• City of Ft. Smith v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · 247 S.W.2d 474
• McCulloch Gas Transmission Co. v. Public Service Commission · 627 P.2d 173
• Ex Parte Darnell · 76 So. 2d 770
• United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission · 130 So. 2d 652
• NJ Bell Tel. Co. v. DEPT., BD. PUB. UTILITY COMM'RS · 97 A.2d 602
• Alabama Gas Corporation v. Wallace · 308 So. 2d 674
• City of Columbus v. Public Utilities Commission · 93 N.E.2d 693
• Walker v. Alabama Public Service Commission · 297 So. 2d 370
• Application of Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. · 233 P.2d 1024
• State Ex Rel. Utilities Commission v. Intervenor Residents of Bent Creek/Mt. Carmel Subdivisions · 286 S.E.2d 770

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