Holton Creamery Co. v. Brown

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment on demurrer to plaintiff’s petition in which it complained that defendants, as officers of the city of Holton, were exacting excessive rates for utility services supplied to plaintiff as a customer of the municipal light and power plant and the city’s water supply.

Plaintiff’s petition alleged that it was engaged in the corporate business of manufacturing butter and dairy products in Holton, in the prosecution of which business it is a large user of water and electric current, both of which services are…