Batman v. Louisville Gas & Electric Co.

Opinion op the Court

by Judge Clarke

Affirming.

The appellee, Louisville Gas & Electric Company, supplies natural gas to tbe residents of the city of Louisville under a franchise contract at a stipulated price per thousand feet, subject, however, to certain discounts when the pressure of gas at the point of consumption is less than three ounces to the square inch.

On the 2nd of February, 1918, the plaintiff, now appellant, Thomas J. Batman, Jr., for himself and on behalf of all other gas consumers in the city similarly sit*660uated,' filed this suit against the company alleging as a cause of action…