City of East St. Louis v. East St. Louis Gas Light & Coke Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;—the Hon. Tazewell B. Tanner, presiding Justice, and the Hon. James C. Allen, and Hon. David J. Baker, Justices;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county, the Hon. William H. Snyder, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was an action brought by the East St. Louis Gas Light and Coke Company against the city of East St. "Louis, for money claimed to be due under a contract entered into 0between the parties on the 3d day of October, 1874, in pursuance of an ordinance of the city council directing it, by which the gas light company agreed to extend its street main pipes within the present and future limits of the city, whenever and wherever the city should order public lamps to be erected, upon connecting lines, not less than one lamp for every 125 feet of street main, and that the company should erect…
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