Keenan & Wade v. City of Trenton
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM GIBSON. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Gibson County. —ConiN P. MoKiNNey, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
The bill of complaint was filed by Keenan & Wade, a firm, to recover of the city of Trenton $9,300, and interest, alleg’ed to be due as the purchase price of an electric light plant alleged to have been sold by complainants to the city.
The plant had been owned and operated in Trenton by complainants for several years; they furnishing lights to the city and its inhabitants under franchise contracts with the city. The city determined to acquire and operate its own plant, and negotiations were began between its officers and complainants which re-*74suited in an offer to sell the existing plant for…
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