State Ex Rel. Hauswirth v. Beadle

Opinion:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon an order dismissing the application of the relator for a writ of prohibition to restrain the defendants from enacting an ordinance looking to the granting of a franchise to the Montana Power Company, a New Jersey corporation, permitting it to supply natural gas to the inhabitants of the city of Butte.

The proceedings were commenced by relator on November 26, 1930, and an alternative writ of prohibition was issued returnable on the 29th of November, 1930, on which day the defendants filed a motion to quash, which was overruled, and then an…