State ex rel. Hopkins v. Citizens Light, Heat & Power Co.

*541The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The state on relation of the attorney-general and the court of industrial relations brings this action in mandamus to compel the defendant to cease collecting a 50-cent service charge for each gas meter used by its customers. The claim is that this charge is made in addition to the legal rate of 80 cents a thousand cubic feet and that no permit to make such charge has been applied for, or granted by the public utilities commission. The defendant insists that the 80-cent rate was enjoined by the Federal court and that, hence, it has a right to…