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JACKSONVILLE GAS CORP. v. FLORIDA R.R. & PUB. U. COM'N

50 So.2d 887 (1951)

JACKSONVILLE GAS CORP. v. FLORIDA R.R. & PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of Florida, en Banc.

Rehearing Denied March 14, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliott Adams and Wm. H. Rogers, Jacksonville, for petitioner.

Lewis W. Petteway, Tallahassee, D. Fred McMullen, Tampa, and Guyte P. McCord, Jr., Tallahassee, for respondent.

Baker & Thornal, Orlando, for Florida Utilities Corp.

Patterson, Freeman, Richardson & Watson, Jacksonville, Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelley, Tampa, Yonge, Whiteside & Prunty and Walton, Hubbard, Schroeder, Lantaff & Atkins, all of Miami, Giles J. Patterson, Jacksonville, Howard P. Macfarlane, Tampa, T.A. Whiteside, Miller Walton and S.O. Carson, all of Miami, William M. Madison and O.O. McCollum, Jr., Jacksonville, for City of Jacksonville.

Holland & Runyon and Harris, Barrett, McGlothlin & Dew, all of St. Petersburg, and Leroy B. Giles, Orlando, amici curiae.

THOMAS, Justice.

In accordance with Chapter 8974, Sp. Laws of Florida, Acts of 1921, authorizing the City Commission of Jacksonville to establish rates for gas consumed in the city so as to afford adequate compensation to the producer, the commission fixed the charges that could be exacted by the Jacksonville Gas Corporation. Being dissatisfied with the amounts set by the commission, the company appealed direct to the Railroad and Public Utilities Commission of the...

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