Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Railroad & Public Utilities Commission
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
In Equity. Bill by the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co., a Kentucky corporation, against the Railroad and Public Utilities Commission of Tennessee, its members and attorneys, to enjoin the enforcement of orders of the Commission in reference to the maintenance of the plaintiff’s existing rates for local telephone exchange service in Tennessee and the suspension of increased rates. The City of Memphis and other municipalities intervened as defendants.
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In Equity. Bill by the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co., a Kentucky corporation, against the Railroad and Public Utilities Commission of Tennessee, its members and attorneys, to enjoin the enforcement of orders of the Commission in reference to the maintenance of the plaintiff’s existing rates for local telephone exchange service in Tennessee and the suspension of increased rates. The City of Memphis and other municipalities intervened as defendants. On application by plaintiff for an interlocutory injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
SANFORD, District Judge.
The Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company has applied for an interlocutory injunction temporarily restraining the enforcement of certain orders of the Railroad and Public Utilities Commission of Tennessee, requiring the Company_tp maintain for the present its existing rates for local exchange service in Tennessee and suspending the increased rates for such service which it has sought to put into effect. . There is the requisite diversity of citizenship and amount in controversy to give Federal jurisdiction, independently of the Constitutional questions involved.
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