Hight v. City of Harrisonville

Plaintiffs seek to enjoin performance of a contract executed by Harrisonville, city of the fourth class, and Fairbanks, Morse & Co. The city undertook to purchase two engines and other equipment from the company for use in its light plant. It owned buildings for housing its light and water plant, and owned a distribution system including a “white way,” which system had been leased to and used by the Missouri Public Service Company, a corporation engaged in selling electric current to cities and consumers in cities, or to cities at wholesale for distribution. The Service Company paid the city…