City of Louisville v. Louisville Home Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky; Walter Evans, Judge. Suit in equity by the Louisville Home Telephone Company against tire City of Louisville and others. From an order granting a preliminary injunction, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
The Telephone Company (called hereafter the company or the Home Company) filed a bill alleging in subsiance that the city had passed an ordinance fixing the telephone cnarges at a confiscatory rate, and moved for a preliminary injunction. This was granted, and the city brings this appeal.
[1] The company has carried on its business in Louisville for 20 years under a franchise which fixed the rates, and the term of which expired March 7, 1921. The city council, on May 26, 1921, passed a rite ordinance which by its terms was to continue for one year only, within which…
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