KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE LIGHT & POWER CO. v. CITY OF PARIS, TENN.

Nos. 5635, 5636.

48 F.2d 795 (1931)

KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE LIGHT & POWER CO. v. CITY OF PARIS, TENN. CULLEY v. KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE LIGHT & POWER CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

April 8, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Marshall Bullitt and J. E. Tarrant, both of Louisville, Ky. (Bruce & Bullitt, of Louisville, Ky., and J. W. Van Dyke, of Paris, Tenn., on the brief), for Kentucky-Tennessee Light & Power Co.

R. L. McReynolds, of Clarksville, Tenn., and Y. Q. Caldwell, Jr., of Paris, Tenn., for W. Y. Morris and others.

Before DENISON, MOORMAN, and HICKS, Circuit Judges.


DENISON, Circuit Judge.

The city of Paris, Tenn. — hereafter called the city — owned and operated electric light and water plants, with the necessary distribution systems, for supplying itself and its citizens. Its governing body decided to sell the combined plant for private operation. Byrd, purporting to act in his own interest, but with the declared intention of making a transfer to an operating company, negotiated and closed a contract which gave...

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