Decatur Gaslight & Coke Co. v. City of Decatur

This suit was brought by appellant to recover the value of gas furnished to the appellee.

The case was submitted to the court without a jury upon an agreed state of facts from which it appeared that the appellee, a corporation created by a special act of the Legislature in 1865 with perpetual existence, was, by an ordinance of the City of Decatur, passed in March, 1867, authorized to use the streets, alleys and other public grounds of the city for the purpose of laying down and maintaining therein pipes for the use of the city and inhabitants thereof. Section 3 of the ordinance is as follows:

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