City of Louisville v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western; District of Kentucky.
1Opinion of the Court
LURTON, Circuit Judge.
This is a bill filed in the Circuit Court to restrain the enforcement of a municipal ordinance regulating charges for telephone service in the city of Louisville, on the ground that the ordinance was violative of the obligation of a contract between the complainant and the city, and also on the ground that the rates prescribed were unreasonable, unjust, and confiscatory, and, if enforced, would deprive complainants of their property without compensation and without that due process of law guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment. An injunction pendente lite was allowed…
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