Helena Water Co. v. City of Helena
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
In Equity. Suit by the Helena Water Company against the City of Helena and others. Motion by complainant for preliminary injunction. On objection to jurisdiction.
1Opinion of the Court
TRIEBER, District Judge.
The plaintiff seeks a temporary injunction to restrain the defendants, the city, and its officials from enforcing an ordinance fixing rates for supplying water to the citizens of the city, which are alleged to be confiscatory.
A preliminary question arising is whether, under the act of the General Assembly of the state of Arkansas of February 15, 1921 (Act 124, Acts of Ark. 1921, pp. 177, 202), the rule of law established in Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line, 211 U. S. 210, 29 Sup. Ct. 67, 53 L. Ed. 150, and cases following it or that in Bacon v. Rutland R. R., 232 U. S.…
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- Chicot County v. SherwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Barber Asphalt Pav. Co. v. MorrisCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1904
- Bacon v. Rutland RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
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