Adler v. Northern Illinois Gas Co.

This is a-class action, in which plaintiff, a customer of defendant, Northern Hlinois Gras Company, brought an action on behalf of all customers of defendant in the Circuit Court of Cook County, seeking (1) a declaratory judgment determining the rights of defendant’s customers under the Natural Gas Act (Title 15 USC § 717ff) and the public utility laws of Illinois; and (2) an accounting for a large sum of money by which, plaintiff alleges, defendant fraudulently enriched itself through the sale of natural gas to its customers. The trial court dismissed the action for want of jurisdiction over…