
    November 12, 1973.
    M. P. Nos. 1784 and 1786.
    Rhode Island Consumers’ Council v. Archie Smith et al. New England Telephone and Telegraph Company v. Public Utilities Commission.
    
      Dennis J. Roberts, II, for Rhode Island Consumers’ Council; Andreio A. DiPrete, for New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, plaintiffs. Archie Smith, for defendants.
   Commission is requested, as an amicus curiae, to brief and argue orally in defense of assignments of errors pressed either by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company or by the Rhode Island Consumers’ Council.

Roberts, C. J., not participating.  