Missouri Public Service Corp. v. Fairbanks, Morse & Co.

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The Missouri Public Service Corporation (organized under the laws of Delaware on November 20, 1936), the owner of an electric plant and distribution system in the city of Trenton, Missouri, and engaged in furnishing electricity to the inhabitants of that city under what it claims is a perpetual, but nonexclusive, franchise, brought this suit in equity to enjoin the city, its officers, and others, from constructing a municipal electric plant and distribution system for the purpose of entering into competition with appellant. The complaint was filed December 21, 1936, and…