Legal Opinion
City of Memphis, Tennessee v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 23, 1963No. 15110PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEICK, Circuit Judge.
The City sought, in the District Court, to enjoin the telephone company from billing its Memphis customers, pro rata, franchise payments made by it to the City as permitted by Chapter 123 of the Public Acts of Tennessee 1961 which amended Tennessee Code Annotated Section 65-405. 1
Prior to the amendment and under the franchise granted by the City to the telephone company on July 1, 1944, the telephone company paid the City as consideration for the franchise, 5% of its gross receipts from customers within the corporate limits of the City. These franchise payments were taken…
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