Legal Opinion
San Antonio Utilities League v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 7, 1936No. 8133PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and the City of San Antonio, after years of hardly contested litigation over telephone rates in the District Court of the Western District of Texas, in cause No. 377 in equity, including the issuance of an injunction against a rate ordinance, the issuance of a bond to protect subscribers pendente lite, a trial on the merits and a reversal, settled their controversy.
On January 1, 1936, they submitted the settlement in the form of a consent decree to the District Court for its approval. The decree fixed a rate between that of the…
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