Central Kentucky Natural Gas Co. v. Railroad Commission of Kentucky

This is a suit in equity, brought by appellant, a Kentucky corporation, in the District Court-for Eastern Kentucky, against the state Railroad Commission, certain state officers, and the City of Lexington, to set aside as confiscatory a rate prescribed by the Commission for the sale of-natural gas distributed by.appellant through its pipe lines to consumers in Lexington. The district court, of three judges, found the rate confiscatory, but refused to enjoin it because of the failure of the appellant to conform to a condition prescribed by the court as prerequisite to granting the injunction.…