State ex rel. Thompson v. Nashville Ry. & Light Co.

This action is prosecuted by the attorney general on behalf of the State to annul contracts and arrangements of the corporations hereinafter named, upon the charge that they constitute a monopoly in the production, distribution, and sale of commercial electricity contrary to public policy, the common law and the Anti-Trust Act, Chapter 140, Acts of 1903.

The bill seeks a forfeiture of the charters of the defendants who are domestic corporations, and the expulsion from the State of the foreign corporations, because of their conduct. It appears that in 1912 the plan was initiated, which…