City of Farmersville v. Texas-Louisiana Power Co.

This controversy reached us first on appeal from an order of the trial court dissolving a temporary injunction [see City of Farmersville v. Texas-Louisiana Power Co. (Tex.Civ.App.) 33 S.W.2d page 272]; we refer to and adopt the statement of the case there given. As there shown, on May 5, 1930, appellant adopted two ordinances (Nos. 122 and 123); the purpose being to regulate utilities and fix rates to be charged consumers. These ordinances were enacted under authority of article 1119, Revised Statutes, as it then existed; later, however, the Forty-Second Legislature amended the article by an…