North Carolina Public Service Co. v. Southern Power Co.

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

This action was commenced in the superior court of Guilford county, N. C., on September 3, 1920. The *839complaint alleged ownership and operation by the plaintiff North Carolina- Public Service Company of a street railway system and of an electric light and power system, furnishing light for the streets and private houses and operating the machinery of industrial enterprises in the cities of Greensboro and High Point, N. C., under municipal franchises; the ownership and operation by the defendant, Southern Power Company, a New Jersey corporation, of large hydroelectric…