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DUKE POWER CO. v. GREENWOOD COUNTY

No. 32.

299 U.S. 259 (1936)

57 S.Ct. 202

81 L.Ed. 178

DUKE POWER CO. ET AL. v. GREENWOOD COUNTY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 14, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. W.S. O'B. Robinson, Jr., and Newton D. Baker, with whom Messrs. R.T. Jackson, W.R. Perkins, H.J. Haynsworth, J.H. Marion, and W.B. McGuire, Jr., were on the brief, for petitioners.

Messrs. W.H. Nicholson and D.W. Robinson, Jr., for Greenwood County et al., respondents.

Mr. Jerome N. Frank and Solicitor General Reed, with whom Attorney General Cummings, Assistant Attorney General Morris, and Messrs. Alexander Holtzoff, John W. Scott, Edward H. Foley, Jr., Robert E. Sher, and William J. Dempsey were on the brief, for Harold L. Ickes, Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works, respondent.

PER CURIAM.

This case presents irregularities in practice which we think should not be overlooked.

The suit was brought by electric utility corporations to restrain the defendants, Greenwood County, South Carolina, and its officials, from constructing and operating a local electric power plant and from issuing bonds and making contracts for that purpose. Harold L. Ickes, as Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works, was permitted to intervene. He filed...

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