Legal Opinion
City of Texarkana v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 27, 1939No. 294PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Reed
A writ of certiorari brings to this Court for review a judgment 1 of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denying the validity or applicability of the following section in a franchise granted to respondent by petitioner in 1930. Section IX of that franchise reads as follows:
“If Grantee shall be finally compelled to, or should voluntarily, place [sic] in any rates in the City of Texar-kana, Arkansas, less than the rates granted by this Ordinance then and thereupon the lessened rate shall apply in the City of Texarkana, Texas, and Grantee shall not be authorized or permitted to…
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