Consolidated Gas Utilities Corporation v. Thompson

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

On amended pleadings bringing down to date 1 the proration orders of the commission plaintiffs complain of, these causes went on January 6, 1936, to final hearing on their merits.

Though complainants’ attacks were leveled against both the statute, House Bill No. 266 (Acts of Texas 1935, c. 120, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stats.Texas, art. 6008), and the orders of the commission, the primary attack was, it was bound to be, on the orders; for none of the matters of which complaint is made are the result of the self-execution of any of the provisions of the statute. They arise on,…