Texas Power & Light Co. v. Doering Hotel Co.

BAUGH, Justice.

Suit was by the Doering Hotel Company, a private corporation, against the Texas Power & Light Company, a public service corporation, to recover for over charges and discrimination on electric current furnished the former by the latter corporation at Temple, Texas, during the period from 1928 to 1938. Trial was to a jury on special -issues, all of which were answered in favor of appellée, plaintiff below, and judgment rendered against appellant for $14,467.50; hence this appeal.

Frank A. Doering built the Doering Hotel in Temple, Texas, in 1928, and owned and operated it in his…