Pocahontas v. Central Power and Light Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Randolph Circuit Court; Dene II. Coleman, Judg’e on exehang’e; STATEMENT OF FACTS. The Central Power & Light Company brought this suit in the circuit court under the statute against the mayor and common council of the town of Pocahontas to review and set aside an order made by them prescribing the rates for electric current for light and other purposes, to consumers in the town of Pocahontas, and to enjoin them from putting into effect said rates.
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Appeal from Randolph Circuit Court; Dene II. Coleman, Judg’e on exehang’e; STATEMENT OF FACTS. The Central Power & Light Company brought this suit in the circuit court under the statute against the mayor and common council of the town of Pocahontas to review and set aside an order made by them prescribing the rates for electric current for light and other purposes, to consumers in the town of Pocahontas, and to enjoin them from putting into effect said rates. L. R. Martin and other consumers of electricity in the town of Pocahontas were made parties defendants to the action because they had…
1Opinion
Hart, J.,
(on rehearing.) Counsel for appellee in their motion for a rehearing have called our attention to the case of Home Telephone & Telegraph Company v. Los Angeles, 211 U. S. 265, and base their right to a rehearing on the principles decided in that case. We do not think that case lends any support to their right for a rehearing. The Supreme Court of the United States expressly recognizes the right of the State to authorize its municipal corporations to establish by a contract the rates to be charged by a public service corporation for a definite term which is reasonable in point of…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of Los AngelesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Southern Iowa Electric Co. v. City of CharitonSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
- City of San Antonio v. San Antonio Public Service Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
- Taliaferro v. BarnettSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1886
- Townsend v. MartinSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1891
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