State ex rel. Boynton v. Mayor of Hutchinson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

The purpose of this proceeding is to compel the commissioners of the city of Hutchinson to submit to a vote of the electors of the city a franchise ordinance that they had just passed granting to a gas company the right to maintain and operate a plant or system for the distribution and sale of gas for twenty years to the city and its inhabitants. Petitions purporting to contain the names of 1,123 registered electors were presented asking for a pop*232ular vote on the adoption or rejection of the franchise ordinance which had just been…