Dickinson v. Oklahoma Natural Gas Co.

This is an action by one public utility company against another to require the latter to furnish the plaintiff with gas. The trial court denied plaintiff’s prayer for the writ of mandamus, and the plaintiff appeals.

The plaintiff is trustee in bankruptcy for the Cherokee Public Service Company. That company is chartered as a public utility, engaged in furnishing gas through pipe lines to certain communities, and in pursuance thereof it has franchises for furnishing gas to ihe cities of Wagoner and Muskogee, and it furnishes gas to other localities. In the city of Muskogee it is in competition…