City of Seymour v. Texas Electric Service Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal brings up for review on a record which, though voluminous, presents no conflict of fact, a decree enjoining the enforcement of minimum rate ordinances passed by the city council to put an end to a destructive rate war which, begun by the municipal plant, was joined in with determined vigor by appellee. These are the facts. Prior to what appellee regards as the intrusion into its local Eden of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., a seller of machinery and appliances, appellee operating from a centraL distributing system furnishing light and power to more than 65…