State ex rel. Latshaw v. Board of Water & Light Commissioners
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Proceeding in the district court for St. Eouis county, upon rela-:ion of Job Latshaw, for a writ of mandamus commanding respondents to accept his tender of $15 as advance payment and to proceed :o furnish him gas for his house and to set a meter therein. From a judgment discharging the alternative writ issued and dismissing the proceeding, entered pursuant to the order of Ensign, J., relator appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtAggard, J.
The relator, a resident of Duluth, was formerly a customer for lluminating gas of the respondents, the water and light department f the city of Duluth. Their net cash rate for gas was seventy-five ents per thousand feet. Their gross rate upon nonpayment on a ¡pedal date was ninety cents per thousand feet. The service was all etered. The relator, while a customer of the respondent in the utumn and winter of 1904-1905, neglected to pay his monthly gas ills by the time fixed, and when respondents then required him to pay *474at the gross rate of ninety cents per thousand feet he refused so to do, on…
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