Iowa Electric Light & Power Co. v. City of Fairmont

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

Appeal from an order of the district court denying plaintiffs’ alternative motion for amended findings of fact and conclusions of law or for a new trial.

The facts are undisputed. Defendant, city of Fairmont, referred to hereinafter as the city, is a city of the fourth class operating under a home rule charter adopted in 1927. Prior to that time it operated under a home rule charter adopted in 1901. Plaintiff Iowa Electric Light and Power Company, referred to hereinafter as the gas company, is an Iowa corporation licensed to do business in Minnesota, and it was…