Zeilda Forsee Investment Co. v. St. Joseph Gas Co.

The áppeal herein is from the action of the trial court in sustaining a demurrer to plaintiff’s petition. It was filed February 19, 1916, and alleged that defendant was a public service corporation engaged in supplying gas for domestic consumption in St. Joseph, Mo., by means of pipe-lines in the streets, under a franchise granted to it by said city; that prior to 1907, defendant made extensions of its gas mains at its own expense, it, at that time, supplying artificial *373gas at $1 per 1000 cubic feet; but that in tbe year 1907 it ceased supplying artificial gas and began furnishing natural gas…