Missouri Utilities Co. v. Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Electric Cooperative

HENRY I. EAGER, Special Commissioner.

In this case Plaintiff-Appellant, a regulated public utility incorporated under Missouri law, seeks to enjoin the defendant Cooperative, also organized under Missouri law (Ch. 394, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S.), from extending its service in the incorporated Village of Miner, Scott County, to a new customer. Indeed, it also seeks an injunction against the continued service by defendant of 22 customers some of whom the defendant has been serving since before the incorporation of the Village in 1951. Plaintiff has also served customers in the Village for many years,…