Legal Opinion
Hope Natural Gas Co. v. Hall
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided September 21, 1926No. 5735PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hatcher, Judge:
The Bill in this ease was filed in the Common Pleas Court of Kanawha County in October, 1925. That court, sustaining the contention of plaintiff in part, held that Section 2a of Chapter 1, of the Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia, passed at the Extraordinary Session, 1925, “when tested by its practical operation and effect, substantially burdens and interferes with interstate commerce”, and accordingly enjoined defendants from enforcing the said Act against the plaintiff, as to the gas sold by it in other states.
The judgment of that court was upheld by the circuit court…
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3Cited by26 opinions
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