Gulf States Utilities Co. v. Dixie Electric Membership Corp.

HAMITER, Justice.

Gulf States Utilities Company instituted this suit seeking to enjoin the Dixie Electric Membership Corporation from operating an electrical distributing system within the City of Baker, Parish of East Baton Rouge.

The district judge maintained defendant’s exception to the court’s jurisdiction rationae materiae, it having been grounded on the allegation that the Louisiana Public Service Commission possesses exclusive jurisdiction over the litigation, and he dismissed the suit.

From that judgment the plaintiff applied to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, for writs of…