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WRIGHT v. CENTRAL KY. GAS CO.

No. 551.

297 U.S. 537 (1936)

WRIGHT ET AL. v. CENTRAL KENTUCKY NATURAL GAS CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 16, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lon B. Rogers for appellants.

Messrs. Henry T. Duncan, Dyke L. Hazelrigg, and Chester J. Gerkin were on the brief for Central Kentucky Natural Gas Co., appellee.

Messrs. Leo T. Wolford and William A. Minihan were on the brief for the City of Lexington, appellee.

Messrs. Joseph A. Edge, John H. Connaughton, and Raymond M. Hudson, were on the brief for J.W. Delph et al., appellees.

PER CURIAM.

Under an ordinance of the City of Lexington, Kentucky, adopted in January, 1927, the Central Kentucky Natural Gas Company purchased a franchise for the distribution and sale of gas to consumers in that city. The contract with the city provided that the company should promulgate the rates which it proposed to charge and that, if the city deemed them to be excessive, proceedings should be instituted before the Railroad Commission of the State in order to...

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