Tyler Gas Service Company and the City of Tyler, Texas v. United Gas Pipe Line Company

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Alleging that United Gas Pipe Line Company, a “Natural Gas Company”, was under binding term contracts as to rates with the City of Tyler and the Tyler Gas Service Company, the operators of a system for the local distribution and sale of gas and the holder of a gas franchise from the city, and that, in violation of their express covenants, it had filed with the Federal Power Commission and was proposing, at the end of the suspension period, to put into effect a schedule of higher rates, Tyler and Tyler Gas filed this suit seeking: (1) a preliminary injunction to restrain…