Myron Green Cafeterias Co. v. Kansas City.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. Allen C. Southern, Judge. (1) The Public Service Commission having taken over entire control of tbe manufacture of artificial gas, and the sale, storage and handling in every detail of both artificial and natural gas, in accordance with the Public Service Commission Act, the ordinance in question is inoperative and void. Public Service Commission Act, Laws 1913, sec. 69, p. 603; State ex rel. v. Pub. Serv.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. Allen C. Southern, Judge. (1) The Public Service Commission having taken over entire control of tbe manufacture of artificial gas, and the sale, storage and handling in every detail of both artificial and natural gas, in accordance with the Public Service Commission Act, the ordinance in question is inoperative and void. Public Service Commission Act, Laws 1913, sec. 69, p. 603; State ex rel. v. Pub. Serv. Comm., 270 Mo. 429; Board of Education v. St. Louis, 267 Mo. 356; Linotype Co. v. Hayes, 202 S. W. 303; Hewitt v. Tel. Co., 172 Mo. App. 272; Bavis…
1Opinion of the CourtJames T. Blair, J.
— Appellants are users of gas in Kansas City, and commenced this suit to enjoin the enforcement of a city ordinance which prohibited the use of gas pumps and other devices designed to increase the flow of gas beyond that normally due to the pressure in the pipe through which the Kansas City Gas Company furnished gas to them. The Kansas City Gas Company receives the gas from the Kansas Natural Gas Company, which procures natural gas at points of production in Oklahoma and Kansas and conducts it through pipes to various towns in Kansas and Missouri, including Kansas City, Missouri. About…
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