State ex rel. Public Service Commission v. Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Blake, J., entered January 26, 1914, in favor of the plaintiff, in mandamus proceedings, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
Respondent brings a mandamus proceeding to compel a disclosure of private contracts.
The appellant is a traction company operating a street railway system in the city of Spokane and some interurban lines running out of Spokane into the surrounding country. It maintains a power plant which generates about twelve thousand horse power. Its present average need for its operations is about nine thousand horse power. Some years ago, at a time when its own power plant had not been completed, appellant entered into a contract to take each year *601three thousand eight hundred horse power from the…
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