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Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil Co., 250 U.S. 394 (1919)
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Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil Co., 250 U.S. 394 (1919)
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Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil Company No. 281 Argued March 25, 1919 Decided June 9, 1919 250 U.S. 394
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
Syllabus
As respects grants to municipalities of governmental authority -- and such is the authority to regulate the rates charged to a city and its inhabitants by a gas company -- the power of the states is not restrained by the contract clause of the Constitution. P. 397.
A city contended that, at the time when it granted a franchise to a gas company to use the streets and supply gas to the city and its inhabitants, the city alone had authority to regulate the charges and service thereunder within its municipal limits, that the legislature could not transfer that authority to a state commission consistently with the state constitution, and that, in consequence, a later act of the legislature, and an order of the commission thereunder changing the service and increasing the rates, impaired the obligation of the franchise contract between the city and the company. Held that no question was presented under the contract clause affording this Court jurisdiction to review a judgment against the city by the state supreme court. P. 396.
Writ of error to review 166 P. 1058 dismissed.
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U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil Co., 250 U.S. 394 (1919) in 250 U.S. 394 250 U.S. 395. Original Sources, accessed July 1, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=MS12RETT9IAFHDA.
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U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil Co., 250 U.S. 394 (1919), in 250 U.S. 394, page 250 U.S. 395. Original Sources. 1 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=MS12RETT9IAFHDA.
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U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil Co., 250 U.S. 394 (1919). cited in 1919, 250 U.S. 394, pp.250 U.S. 395. Original Sources, retrieved 1 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=MS12RETT9IAFHDA.
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