SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. CITY OF SAN ANTONIO

No. 7528.

75 F.2d 880 (1935)

SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, TEX., et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Henriques, of New Orleans, La., E. W. Clausen, of St. Louis, Mo., Wm. H. Duls and Nelson Phillips, both of Dallas, Tex., and E. D. Henry and L. M. Bickett, both of San Antonio, Tex., for appellant.

Bruce W. Teagarden, Carl Wright Johnson, and T. D. Cobbs, Jr., all of San Antonio, Tex., contra.

Before BRYAN, SIBLEY, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company filed a bill against the city of San Antonio and its officials to restrain the enforcement of a scale of rates for telephone service within the city which had been established on June 20, 1918, for the company's predecessor by authority of the city, asserting that the scale had become confiscatory; and to enjoin interference with a higher scale which the company...

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