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CITY OF HOUSTON v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TEL. CO.

No. 12685.

263 S.W.2d 169 (1953)

CITY OF HOUSTON et al. v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TEL. CO.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston.

Rehearing Denied December 17, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will Sears, City Atty., Houston, Jack W. Mills, Asst. City Atty., Oscar J. Cadwallader, Jr., and John R. Bennett, Asst. City Atty., Houston, for appellants.

Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, David T. Searls, Tarlton Morrow, M. C. Chiles, and C. E. Coolidge, Houston, Ed Gossett and William A. Gray, Dallas, for appellee.

HAMBLEN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the City of Houston and the Mayor and members of the City Council of the City of Houston from an order of the District Court of Harris County granting appellee Southwestern Bell Telephone Company a temporary injunction enjoining the appellants, pending final hearing for permanent injunction, from enforcing a schedule of local exchange telephone rates fixed by the City Council of Houston by ordinance dated December 1, 1949...

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