Lenawee County Gas & Electric Co. v. City of Adrian
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Lenawee; Hart (Burton L.), J. Bill by the Lenawee County Gas & Electric Company against the city of Adrian and others to enjoin the enforcement of an ordinance fixing gas rates. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
Plaintiff is a public service corporation engaged in supplying the city of Adrian and its inhabitants with gas. Defendants are the city of Adrian and certain of its officials who are said in plaintiff’s brief to have been joined with the city as defendants “both in their capacity as such officials and as consumers of gas representing the large body of such consumers.”
Plaintiff filed this injunction bill, directed primarily against the city, to restrain enforcement of an ordinance which specifies the rates which may be charged for gas; and in that particular to have such ordinance adjudged…
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