Legal Opinion
Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. Tennessee Valley Authority
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 30, 1939No. 27PublishedCited by 400 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Roberts
The Tennessee Valley Authority Act1 erects a corporation, an instrumentality of the United States, to develop by a series of dams on the Tennessee River and its tributaries a system of navigation and flood control and to sell the power created by the dams. Eighteen corporations which generate and distribute electricity in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and one *135which transmits electricity m Tennessee and Alabama, filed a bill in equity, in the Chancery Court of Knox County, Tennessee, against the Authority and…
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