Wolf v. United Gas Public Service Co.

SMITH, Justice.

Appellee, United Gas Public Service Company, is a public utilities corporation engaged in supplying natural gas to various communities, including the city of Laredo, where it operates under a franchise granted by the city to appellee’s remote predecessor in 1905. Appellants, Bruno Wolf and George E. Reu-thinger, partners, operate, and since 1922 have operated, a bakery in said city, “and in such business used gas for fuel, and in large quantities, which they purchased from the defendant and its predecessors.”

By the terms of the franchise under which appellee is operating, the…