City of Bluff City v. Western Light & Power Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This action was commenced by Bluff City, a city of the third class, against the Western Light and Power Corporation to set aside and hold for naught ordinances of that city, Nos. 104 and 105 — the former being one purporting to authorize the sale of the electric light plant of the city, consisting mainly of a transmission line from Anthony to Bluff City and the distributing system in Bluff City, and the latter granting to the defendant a franchise to use and operate said system in Bluff City — because the ordinances are voidable and void…