Mills v. City of Chicago

GROSSCUP, Circuit Judge.

The bill is by a citizen of California, a stockholder of the Peoples Gas Eight and Coke Company, suing in behalf of himself and all other stockholders of the company similarly situated, against the city of Chicago and the gas company, citizens of Illinois. The object of the bill is to restrain the city from enforcing an ordinance passed by the city council of Chicago, October 15th, 1900, forbidding manufacturers of gas from demanding or collecting, from consumers of gas within the city, more than seventy-five cents per *733thousand cubic feet, and attaching a penalty of…