City of Muscatine v. Swickard

Miller. J.

Plaintiffs’ petition asserts that the City of Muscatine is a special-charter city that owns and operates a municipal electric plant and distribution system; the defendants constitute the State Tax Commission and the tax officials of Muscatine county; as a part of the distribution system of its municipal electric plant, the city has constructed and maintained and is now operating certain transmission lines outside the corporate limits of the city in four'townships which are adjacent to the city-; the rural lines total approximately 12 miles of transmission lines, constitute an…