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SOUTHERN UTILITIES CO. v. PALATKA

No. 339.

268 U.S. 232 (1925)

45 S.Ct. 488

69 L.Ed. 930

SOUTHERN UTILITIES COMPANY v. CITY OF PALATKA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 11, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William L. Ransom, with whom Messrs. W.B. Crawford and J.T.G. Crawford were on the briefs, for petitioner.

Mr. P.H. Odom, with whom Mr. J.J. Canon was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

The City of Palatka brought this bill to restrain the petitioner, the Southern Utilities Company, from charging more than ten cents per kilowatt, meter measurement, for commercial electric lighting in the city. It alleged a contract in the grant of the petitioner's franchise by which the petitioner was bound not to charge more than that sum. The defendant pleaded that...

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