Maxwell v. Holmesville Mill & Power Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska; Thomas C. Munger, Judge. In the matter of the Iowa-Nebraska Public Service Company, bankrupt. From an order allowing the claim of the Holmesville Mill & Power Company for the balance of an account for electric current, Henry F. Maxwell, as receiver in bankruptcy, appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order allowing the claim of $69.72, the balance of an account for 69,725 kilowatt hours of electric current furnished by the Holmesville Mill & Power Company to Henry E. Maxwell, receiver in bankruptcy of the estate of the Iowa-Nebraska. Public Service Company, during the month of October, 1913. The parties agreed that the current was furnished and that the reasonable value of this current was 1.1 cent's per hour. Maxwell claims that the current was furnished and re *685ceived under a written contract which fixed its price at 1 cent per kilowatt…
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