Union Light, Heat & Power Co. v. City of Bellevue

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Cammack

Reversing.

Tlie franchise under which the Union Light, Heat & Power Company agreed to furnish electric service to the City of Bellevue and its residents for a 10-year period beginning the latter part of 1930 provided, among other things, that in the event lower charges for electric service should be put into effect in the cities of Covington and Newport during the life of the franchise, the lower rates would he put into effect in Bellevue within one month thereafter. During the life of the franchise lower rates were put into effect in Covington and Newport…