Sutter v. People's Gas Light & Coke Co.

The appellee, James F. Sutter, brought this suit in the municipal court of Chicago against the appellant, the People’s Gas Light and Coke. Company, and by his statement of claim alleged that the city council of the city of Chicago on July 17, 1911, passed an ordinance fixing the rates for gas furnished to consumers for the next five years, as follows : During the first year of said five years seventy-five ■ cents for each iooo cubic feet of gas consumed or used, during the second and third years seventy cents for each iooo cubic feet, and during the next two years sixty-eight cents for each…