Opinion
No. 32349
Decided April 25, 1951.
Public Utilities Commission — Telephone companies — Complaint of inadequate service and request for service from another company — Complaint dismissed by commission — Appeal — Affirmance — Order not unlawful or unreasonable.
APPEAL from the Public Utilities Commission.
Mr. Foster E. King, for appellants.
Mr. Herbert S. Duffy and Mr. C. William O'Neill, attorneys general, and Mr. Kenneth B. Johnston, for appellee.
The appellants, residing in Hancock county and presently served by the Ohio Associated Telephone Company, filed with the Public Utilities Commission a complaint as to inadequate service and asked that they be allowed to subscribe to and secure the service of the Ada exchange owned and operated by the Lima Telephone Telegraph Company.
The latter company filed an answer alleging that the territory involved lies in the Jenera exchange area of the Ohio Associated Telephone Company, which area the Lima company has never served, and praying that the complaint be dismissed.
The Ohio Associated Telephone Company filed an answer denying that the service is inadequate and insufficient, averring that such company has facilities available for the rendition of service within the territory in question and is ready and willing to serve such territory, and praying that the complaint be dismissed.
The cause is in this court on appeal from an order of the Public Utilities Commission dismissing the complaint.
From a consideration of the record it does not appear that the order of the commission is unlawful or unreasonable and it is, therefore, affirmed.
Order affirmed.
WEYGANDT, C.J., ZIMMERMAN, STEWART, MIDDLETON, TAFT, MATTHIAS and HART, JJ., concur.