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LINDHEIMER v. ILLINOIS TEL. CO.

No. 440.

292 U.S. 151 (1934)

54 S.Ct. 658

78 L.Ed. 1182

LINDHEIMER ET AL. v. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 30, 1934.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. George I. Haight and Benjamin F. Goldstein, with whom Messrs. William H. Sexton and Edmund D. Adcock were on the brief, for Lindheimer et al.

Messrs. William H. Thompson and Charles M. Bracelen, with whom Messrs. Edward L. Blackman, Kenneth F. Burgess, Leslie N. Jones, John H. Ray, and John W. Davis were on the brief, for the Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

By leave of Court, Mr. Patrick H. O'Brien, Attorney General of Michigan, and Mr. Harold Goodman filed a brief on behalf of the State of Michigan, as amicus curiae.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case comes here for the second time. It presents the question of the validity under the Fourteenth Amendment of rates prescribed by the Illinois Commerce Commission for telephone service in the City of Chicago. The Commission's order, made on August 16, 1923, to be effective October 1, 1923, reduced rates applicable to a large part of the intrastate service of the appellee, Illinois Bell Telephone Company...

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