Texoma Natural Gas Co. v. Railroad Commission of Texas

WEST, District Judge.

The enforcement of an act of the Legislature is restrained, on plaintiffs’ petitions, as in violation of the Federal Constitution, awaiting consideration of a three-judge court on prayers for interlocutory injunctions. USCA, tit. 28, § 380. The court so constituted sits in hearing. The cases are consolidated. The required diversity of citizenship of the parties and values of matters in controversy are apparent, and^he jurisdiction of the court is not questioned. The Com mon. Purchaser Act, regulating oil and gas pipe lines, was passed by tlie Forty-Second Legislature of…