Central Electric & Gas Co. v. City of Stromsburg

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the Central Electric & Gas Company from a judgment dismissing its complaint in an action to enjoin the City of Stromsburg and other defendants from taking further proceedings for the condemnation of the plaintiff’s gas distribution system, which serves that City. The condemnation proceedings were instituted by the City on March 13, 1956, when the City Council adopted an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of the City, at a general municipal election to be held on April 3, 1956, of the question whether or not the plaintiff’s local…