United Fuel & Gas Co. v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chieb Justice Hobson — «

Beversing.

Tiie United Fuel Gas Company holds a franchise granted by the city of Louisa under an ordinance which among other things provides that the grantee of the franchise shall furnish for public and private use to the city and its inhabitants natural or artificial gas at a reasonable price not exceeding in any event one dollar per one thousand cubic feet, and that the grantee in delivering gas shall not discriminate against the consumers in the city. The United Fuel Gas Company proposed to the inhabitants of Louisa to sell them gas at twenty…