Kentucky-Tennessee Light & Power Co. v. City of Paris

From a decree of the chancellor dismissing its bill on demurrer, the complainant has appealed to this court.

The complainant, Kentucky-Tennessee Light & Power Company, operating an electric light and power plant in Paris, Tenn., filed this bill to restrain that municipality from erecting a distribution system through which the city itself proposed to sell light and power — electric current to be supplied by Tennessee Valley Authority. The mayor and aldermen of Paris were made defendants along with Harold L. Ickes, Federal Administrator of Public Works, and Tennessee Valley Authority; a decree…