Houston Lighting & Power Co. v. Fleming

GRAVES, Justice.

Appellant, an electric utility company, brought this suit to enjoin the City of West University Place and its officials from enforcing its newly-adopted ordinance No. 129 of January 4 of 1938, copy of which is appended hereto as Exhibit A, requiring all telegraph, telephone, electric, and gas companies furnishing their respective services in the City to pay four per cent of their annual gross-receipts from business done therein, as a “street-rental”, and conditioning their future right to use the streets at all for such purpose upon compliance with such ordinance. This appeal…