METROPOLITAN-EDISON CO. v. ICKES

Nos. 61550, 61113, 60145, 63136.

22 F.Supp. 639 (1938)

METROPOLITAN-EDISON CO. v. ICKES, Administrator of Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. TENNESSEE ELECTRIC POWER CO. v. SAME. KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE LIGHT & POWER CO. v. SAME (two cases).

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

March 8, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moultrie Hitt, G. Kibby Munson, J. Bruce Kremer, and Herbert M. Bingham, all of Washington, D. C. (Travis, Brownback & Paxson, of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff Kentucky-Tennessee Light & Power Co.

Charles C. Trabue, of Nashville, Tenn., Howard C. Westwood, of Washington, D. C., and L. N. Spears, of Chattanooga, Tenn. (Covington, Burling, Rublee, Acheson & Shorb, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for plaintiff Tennessee Electric Power Co.

J. Bruce Kremer and Herbert M. Bingham, both of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff Metropolitan Edison Co.

James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul Freund, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and Enoch E. Ellison, Atty., Department of Justice, and Carl F. Farbach, Gen. Counsel, both of Washington, D. C., Robert E. Sher, and Joseph B. Hobbs, Counsel for Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, both of Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Before MILLER, Associate Justice, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and WHEAT, Chief Justice, and GORDON, Justice, District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.


PER CURIAM.

These cases are before the court upon motions made by government counsel to dissolve preliminary injunctions entered upon consent restraining the officials of PWA and the Treasury from advancing funds for the purpose of financing the construction of power projects. These motions to dissolve the injunctions are based upon the claim that the decision by the Supreme Court on January 3, 1938, in Alabama Power Company v. Ickes, 302 U.S. 464<...

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