Texas City v. Community Public Service Co.

KEITH, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order granting a temporary injunction restraining the appellants from enforcing their respective ordinances fixing the rates which appellee may charge to consumers of electricity in such cities. The appellants are City of Texas City, City of LaMarque, and City of Angleton, all existing and functioning under charters adopted pursuant to the provisions of Tex.Const. art. XI, § 5, and Title 28, Chapter 13, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. arts. 1165-1182 (1963). Thus, each of the appellants is a home rule city under the constitution and laws of the State of Texas.

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