Legal Opinion
Lone Star Gas Co. v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Decided April 30, 1941No. 7664PublishedCited by 158 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Critz
This is a gas utility rate case. As it reaches us it involves principally the question of confiscation. The case has had a rather checkered career, as will appear from the opinion which follows.
It appears that after a very extended hearing before it and its agencies, duly constituted, the Railroad Commission of Texas, hereinafter called the Commission, entered an order fixing a gas rate of 32c to be applied at all city gates of cities in Texas served by the Lone Star Gas Company.
Very shortly after the above gas rate order was promulgated by the Commission, the Gas Company filed a suit in the…
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