HOUSTON v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TEL. CO.

Nos. 219, 220.

259 U.S. 318 (1922)

CITY OF HOUSTON v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY v. CITY OF HOUSTON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1922.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.J. Howard and Mr. Sewall Myer, with whom Mr. A.E. Amerman was on the briefs, for the City of Houston.

Mr. C.M. Bracelen and Mr. Nelson Phillips, with whom Mr. W.H. Duls and Mr. N.T. Guernsey were on the brief, for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.


MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

These are cross appeals in a suit to restrain the enforcement of an ordinance enacted by the City of Houston, Texas (hereinafter referred to as the City), prescribing rates for telephone service, based upon the claim that the rates are confiscatory.

The master to whom the case was referred found that the rates were clearly confiscatory and the District Court, while modifying his findings in some respects...

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