Chouteau v. St. Louis Gaslight Co.

This action is brought to recover certain moneys, alleged to have bee,n paid by the plaintiff to the defendant as gas bills through mistake, and wrongfully collected from the plaintiff by the defendant. The petition sets up that the defendant is a *327corporation engaged in furnishing illuminating gas to customers in the city of St. Louis; that amongst its customers to whom it furnished gas from the year 1885 to the year. 1889, inclusive, was plaintiff, who obtained gas from defendant for illuminating the Olympic theater ; that from, to-wit, the twenty-ninth day of August, 1885, to the first day…