Supreme Court of the United States, 1931

Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided May 25, 1931

283 U.S. 808; 75 L. Ed. 1427; 51 S. Ct. 646; 1931 U.S. LEXIS 217 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Messrs. Oscar E. Carlstrom, Samuel A. Ettelson, George I. Haight, Benjamin F. Goldstein, Edmund D. Adcock, and Francis X. Busch for appellants., Messrs. Horace Kent Tenney, Charles M. Bracelen, William H. Thompson, Kenneth F. Burgess, R. A. Van Orsdel, and Leslie N. Jones for appellee.

Cases that cite this one

16 later published cases cite this decision.

Western Distributing Co. v. Public Service Commission (District Court, D. Kansas 1931)
People v. Schock (Cal. Ct. App. 1984)
Kent v. POLK COUNTY BD. OF SUP'RS (Iowa 1986)
Kent v. Polk County Board of Supervisors (Iowa 1986)
Johansson v. Board of Animal Health (D. Minn. 1985)
Shinrone Farms, Inc. v. Gosch (Iowa 1982)
Conner v. Carlton (Fla. 1969)
Board of Levee Commissioners v. Klein (La. 1955)
Fleming v. Richardson (Iowa 1946)
Knudson v. Linstrum (Iowa 1943)
State v. Strayer (Iowa 1941)
Lackner v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co. (7th Cir. 1940)
Illinois Bell Telephone Co. v. Slattery (7th Cir. 1939)
Parish of Jefferson v. Texas Co. (La. 1939)
Illinois Bell Telephone Co. v. Slattery (7th Cir. 1938)
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Wallace (Or. 1937)

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Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam:

The appeal herein is dismissed. The order of the District Court merely reinstated the interlocutory injunction pursuant to the opinion of this Court. The *809parties should proceed with the trial of the cause upon the merits as this Court has directed.

Messrs. Oscar E. Carlstrom, Samuel A. Ettelson, George I. Haight, Benjamin F. Goldstein, Edmund D. Adcock, and Francis X. Busch for appellants. Messrs. Horace Kent Tenney, Charles M. Bracelen, William H. Thompson, Kenneth F. Burgess, R. A. Van Orsdel, and Leslie N. Jones for appellee. [See 282 U. S. 133.]

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