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TENNESSEE POWER CO. v. T.V.A.

No. 27.

306 U.S. 118 (1939)

TENNESSEE ELECTRIC POWER CO. ET AL. v. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 30, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Raymond T. Jackson and John C. Weadock, with whom Messrs. Charles C. Trabue and Charles M. Seymour were on the brief, for appellants.

Messrs. James Lawrence Fly and John Lord O'Brian, with whom Solicitor General Jackson, and Mr. Paul A. Freund, Mr. William C. Fitts, Jr., and Bessie Margolin were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Tennessee Valley Authority Act1 erects a corporation, an instrumentality of the United States, to develop by a series of dams on the Tennessee River and its tributaries a system of navigation and flood control and to sell the power created by the dams. Eighteen corporations which generate and distribute electricity in Tennessee, Kentucky...

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