Keystone Investment Co. v. Metropolitan Utilities District

In each of the above entitled actions the plaintiffs sought to enjoin defendant from the enforcement of its rules and regulations, requiring plaintiffs to pay an annual charge for a stand-pipe service for fire protection in the office buildings owned or operated by them. The four actions, by stipulation of the parties, were consolidated for trial in the district court, but a separate decree, denying the injunction, was entered in each case. Plaintiffs in the several actions have appealed, and all of the cases have been submitted together in this court, and, as substantially the same questions…