Monett Electric Light, Power & Ice Co. v. Incorporated City of Monett
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Missouri
' In Equity. Suit by the Monett Electric Eight, Power & Ice Company against the Incorporated City of Monett, Mo., Perry Short, as Mayor, Leroy Jeffries, J. E. Moses, John Walsh, W. J. Mills, R. C. Farrow, G. N. Patterson, G. P. Gammon, and C. W. Vaugn, as the Board of Aldermen, and D. S. Breese, as Clerk of said City, W. K. Martin, and L. G. Knapp. Decree for defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN VALKENBURGH, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity to restrain the city of Monett, Mo., and its officers from building and operating a municipal light plant in said city. The facts as disclosed by the proofs are as follows:
On the 4th day of February, 1893, the city of Monett, being then a city of the fourth class, acting under authority of the statutes of the state of Missouri pertaining to cities of that class, undertook to grant to one H. Ward Hicks, his successors or assigns, the exclusive right and privilege to erect, construct, operate, furnish, and maintain electric light works…
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