City of St. Louis v. St. Louis Gas-Light Co.

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court re-taxing the amount which had been allowed as compensation to the receiver appointed in this case, as costs against the plaintiff. The question arises in this way: On the first day of June, 1876, the circuit court, on a final hearing of this cause, adjudged the equities in favor of the plaintiff, and, among other orders, made the following: “And the court doth further adjudge and decree that the defendant, the St. Louis Gas-Light Company, be forever enjoined and restrained from manufacturing or selling gas in the city of St. Louis or its…