Opinion

Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utility Commission

  • 21 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 545
  • 571 S.W.2d 503
  • 26 P.U.R.4th 61
  • 1978 Tex. LEXIS 391
  • 1978 WL 391818
Court
Texas Supreme Court
Filed
Jul 26, 1978
Status
Published
Author
Johnson
On the bench
Johnson, Chadick
Cited by
73 cases

approving trial court’s decision to determine utility’s request to stay the Commission's order based on the agency record, excluding new evidence on confiscation

How later courts described this case

  • approving trial court’s decision to determine utility’s request to stay the Commission's order based on the agency record, excluding new evidence on confiscation
  • Commission should consider nature and present usefulness of land held for future use *858 when determining inclusion in rate base
  • Commission should consider nature and present usefulness of land held for future use when determining inclusion in rate base
  • original cost less depreciation considered in determining "adjusted value of invested capital"

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

SAM D. JOHNSON, Justice,

dissenting.

This writer does not necessarily agree with the writing in dissent on motion for rehearing. This writer does agree, however, with the disposition for which the dissent argues.

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