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Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The facts are stated in the opinion. In order to determine the power of the city of 'Los Angeles, in granting' the franchise in question, to enter upon a contract with the grantee thereof as to rates for telephone service, it is necessary to examine first the nature and scope of the power delegated to make the grant; the express requirements to be complied with in making it, and the extent of the discretion left to the granting body. As bearing upon the question of such power to contract, the Broughton…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Jjtstice Moody
delivered the opinion of the court.
This ifc a suit in equity brought in the Circuit Court of the United States by the appellant, a telephone company, against fee city of Los Angeles, and its officers. The object of the suit is to .restrain the enforcement of certain ordinances which fixed the rates to be charged for telephone service; required every person, firm or corporation' supplying telephone service to furnish annually £o the city council a statement (of thé^revenüe frqm, and expenditures'in, the business, and an itemized inventory of the property us,ed in the…
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