Texas Power & Light Company v. City of Garland

431 S.W.2d 511 (1968)

TEXAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, Petitioner,

v.

CITY OF GARLAND et al., Respondents.

No. A-11680.

Supreme Court of Texas.

March 27, 1968.

Rehearing Denied July 24, 1968.

Burford, Ryburn & Ford, Robert E. Burns, H. P. Kucera, Dallas, for petitioner.

Cary Young, Garland, McGinnis, Lochridge, Kilgore, Hunter & Wilson, James W. Wilson, Austin, for respondents.

SMITH, Justice.

Texas Power & Light Company sued the City of Garland a home rule city, to enjoin the City from requiring the Company to obtain a permit before it extended its electrical line to a new customer and from interfering…