United Gas Corp. v. Shepherd Laundries Inc.

Mr. Judge Folley,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

This suit was instituted in Harris County by the respondent, Shepherd Laundries Company, Inc., against the petitioner, United Gas Corporation, for damages because petitioner charged respondent a higher rate for natural gas furnished it in Houston for certain periods between June, 1934, and October, 1942, than it did other customers in that city “under similar and like circumstances.” The petition of respondent charges that during such period the gas company, and its predecessors in business, supplied gas to…