City of Baker v. Montana Petroleum Co.

In the year 1916 the city of Baker enacted a gas franchise ordinance, granting to Montana Petroleum Company, a corporation, a franchise to install and operate within or adjacent to the city a gas plant and to lay and maintain conduits, mains, fixtures and other apparatus for supplying and transmitting natural or artificial gas into the city, and in and through the streets, avenues, alleys or public grounds thereof. The franchise included the ordinary provisions common to such grants and ordinances. It imposed upon the parties usual conditions. There is no question raised here as to the…