State ex rel. Bristow v. Landon

*594The opinion of the court was delivered by

• West, J.:

In November, 1908, the Kansas Natural Gas Company entered into a written contract with the Olathe Gas Company by the terms of which the latter, as agent of the former, was to supply natural gas to its patrons on certain terms, a portion of which gas was to be furnished by the Natural Gas Company and a portion by the local company. This contract was considered in The State, ex rel., v. Litchfield, 97 Kan. 592, 155 Pac. 814, in which it was' observed that the local company was operating under a franchise granted by the city authorizing a…