Shreveport Laundries, Inc. v. Southern Cities Distributing Co.

BRUNOT, Justice.

The plaintiff is engaged in operating five industrial plants, steam laundries, in the city of Shreveport, La., in which it consumes natural gas that is purchased from and distributed by the defendant. The Public Service Commission has fixed the rates for gas so consumed, and the price decreases as the consumption increases. Plaintiff’s laundries are widely separated, with separate meters and separate pipe lines leading to each plant. The plaintiff contends that it should be charged for the gas consumed by it on the rate basis for its total consumption in its five plants, but…