Western Gas Co. v. City of Bremerton

The plaintiff, appellant herein, the Western Gas Company of Washington, is a domestic corporation, and the defendant, respondent herein, is the city of Bremerton. The parties will be referred to hereinafter as the “company” and the “city.”

The company is party to a fifty-year city franchise based on city ordinance No. 912 adopted by the city commissioners of the city on April 6, 1930, a fifty-year county franchise based on resolution of the county commissioners of Kitsap county (hereinafter referred to as the “county”) adopted January 5, 1931, and another twenty-five-year county franchise…