Smith v. Southern Union Gas Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• legislature has not taken away jurisdiction from courts, but has postponed jurisdiction until Department has acted on the complaint
• “We have held in many cases the district court gets its jurisdiction from the Constitution, and it is not to be circumscribed or restrained by the legislature.”
• “We have held in many cases the district court gets its jurisdiction from the Constitution, and it is not to be circumscribed or restrained by the legislature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).