State Ex Rel. School District of Scottsbluff v. Ellis

The appeal here presents for review the decree ren-. dered in the disposition of three actions which were consolidated and tried to the court. In order that the matters presented may be properly understood it be comes necessary to set forth in considerable detail the background of the litigation and to outline the issues presented by the three cases as originally instituted.

In the year 1942 the Consumers Public Power District, a public corporation and political subdivision of the State of Nebraska, which will be hereinafter referred to as Consumers, pursuant to statutory authority, purchased…