Terrell v. Community Natural Gas Co.

This appeal is from an order that we construe to be a temporary injunction, the decisive question presented being, whether the court below had jurisdiction of the suit. The following facts constitute the background of the controversy: On February 2, 1938, the Railroad Commission of Texas adopted and entered upon its minutes the following order:

"In the matter of announcing the policy of the Railroad Commission of Texas with reference to the fixing of Gas Rates within Cities and Towns and the Exercise by the Commission of concurrent original jurisdiction in incorporated Cities and Towns.

Gas…