Legal Opinion
City of Texarkana v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 7, 1940No. 9350PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.
This litigation was begun in 1933, to compel the Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company to maintain in Texarkana, Texas, the same scale of gas rates afforded in Texarkana, Arkansas, because of a clause in the franchise granted by the Texas city so providing. The period at first involved was June 17, 1930, to December 1, 1933. By supplemental pleading a period from December 1, 1933, to February 16, 1934, became involved, and one from February 16, 1934, to December 30, 1936. In the District Court a decree was rendered in 1937, which upheld the accepted franchise as a binding…
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