Consumers' Co. v. Hatch

Omitting reference to matters not pertinent to the alleged Federal questions relied upon, the facts.are these: Although it was optional with it to do so, the plaintiff in error, a water supply corporation, operating under a franchise granted in 1903, laid a water main in Third street, an ungraded street within the corporate limits of the then village — now city — of Cceur d’Alene, Idaho. While the company was supplying residents on the street with water for domestic use, upon payment of the regular monthly rates established by the Water Commission provided for by the statutes of Idaho, Albert…