State ex rel. Thalheim v. Louisiana Gas Service Co.

YARRUT, Judge ad hoc.

The District Court dismissed relator’s suit for a mandamus to compel defendant to furnish meters and gas to his property located in Gretna.

Relator alleged that defendant is a public utility, the only public utility in Gretna, and is required to furnish relator with meters and gas for heating and cooking at his premises, 304-06 Fifth Street, Gretna, and that he has no adequate remedy except a writ of mandamus. Relator further charges that defendant’s refusal to furnish him such gas meters and service is capricious, arbitrary and illegal.

Defendant, after first admitting its…