Lone Star Gas Co. v. City of Fort Worth

GERMAN, Commissioner.

This suit was instituted in the district court of Tarrant county, Tex., by Lone Star Gas Company against the City of Fort Worth and its governing officials, and was for injunction. We will designate the parties as in the district court, and will regard the city as the real defendant.

The plaintiff is a corporation with its principal place of business in Fort Worth, and it owns and operates a gas distributing plant or system in that city by which it furnishes gas and gas service to the inhabitants thereof. In connection with this system it owns gas wells, leases, rights,…