Lammers v. Heartland

(on reassignment).

*208This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court approving the formation of Heartland Consumers Power District and presents some questions with reference to the statutes1 under which the court held the hearing and entered its order. The Consumer Power District Act, now Consumer Power Districts Law, will be referred to herein as the Act. It provides in general that nonprofit, public service, utility districts may be organized for the purpose of providing electric energy throughout the State of South Dakota; that when created it would be a political subdivision of the…