Price v. City of Mattoon

delivered the opinion of the court: A suit in equity was filed by Edgar T. Price and others in the circuit court of Coles county to restrain the city of Mattoon, the Central Illinois Public Service Company and certain contractors from the financing and construction of a waterworks purchase-and-improvement program instituted by the municipality. It appears from the briefs that the city owned a municipal water-supply system supplying only commercial users with water, and the utility company also owned a water-supply system which exclusively supplied domestic consumers. The amended complaint was…