Legal Opinion
City of Uvalde v. Uvalde Electric & Ice Co.
Texas Commission of Appeals
Decided April 18, 1923No. 345-3723PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHamilton, J.
The city of Uvalde, a municipal corporation, Jake Schwartz, D. W. Barnhill, and Eugene Kincaid, citizens of Uvalde, brought suit against defendant in error for injunction restraining it from raising the rates for lights, alleging that the city and the company entered into a contract in 1917, many years after the company had been doing business in the city, by the terms of which the city agreed, for a term of 10 years, to pay the company the prices per kilowatt stipulated in the contract for street lighting, and the company agreed, for the same term, to charge the inhabitants the prices per…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Walla Walla City v. Walla Walla Water Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Hill v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of Los AngelesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Detroit v. Detroit Citizens' Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad v. DennisSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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3Cited by41 opinions
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- Lower Colorado River Authority v. McCrawTexas Supreme Court · 1935
- Texas Highway Commission v. El Paso Building & Construction Trades CouncilTexas Supreme Court · 1950
- City of Houston v. ShillingTexas Supreme Court · 1951
- Texas-Louisiana Power Co. v. City of FarmersvilleTexas Commission of Appeals · 1933
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