Shepard v. Milwaukee Gas Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This was an action for wrongfully refusing to furnish gas to light the plaintiff’s store, upon a proper demand and offer to pay for it.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This was an action for wrongfully refusing to furnish gas to light the plaintiff’s store, upon a proper demand and offer to pay for it. The case was once before in this court, and the substance of the complaint and answer is stated in 11 Wis., 234. A previous action between the same parties (commenced before a justice of the peace), had also been in this court on appeal from the county court of Milwaukee, and this court held that the Gas Light Company might reasonably require its customers to sign written applications stating the number of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Paine, J.
It has been already decided by this court, that tbe Gas Company could not require tbe plaintiff to sign an agreement to abide by tbe rules and regulations which bad been adopted at tbe time tbe plaintiff’s application for gas was made.
It was at tbe same time held, that tbe Company might reasonably require its customers to sign written applications stating tbe number of burners &c. On tbe last trial it was made to appear, that tbe written agreement which tbe plaintiff was requested to sign, which contained a promise to abide by tbe rules and regulations, contained also…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- City of Cincinnati v. EvansOhio Supreme Court · 1855
- Amos Wade v. Jacob R. Leroy and Henry E. PierrepointSupreme Court of the United States · 1858
- Dewint v. WiltseNew York Supreme Court · 1832
- Aikin v. . the Western Railroad CorporationNew York Court of Appeals · 1859
- Marquart v. La FargeThe Superior Court of New York City · 1856
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