Water, Light & Gas Co. of Hutchinson v. City of Hutchinson
Supreme Court of the United States
. APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OP KANSAS. The ultimate question ini these cases is the validity of Ordinance No. 402 of the city of Hutchinson, which took effect March 17, 1897, and by which the Water, Light and Gas Company claims to have, for the period of twenty years from such date, the exclusive right and privilege of supplying the city and its inhabitants with water, and with light, heat and power by means of electricity and gas.
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. APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OP KANSAS. The ultimate question ini these cases is the validity of Ordinance No. 402 of the city of Hutchinson, which took effect March 17, 1897, and by which the Water, Light and Gas Company claims to have, for the period of twenty years from such date, the exclusive right and privilege of supplying the city and its inhabitants with water, and with light, heat and power by means of electricity and gas. On the nineteenth of December, 1905, the city enacted and published Ordinance No. 651, granting permits to Emerson Carey…
1Opinion of the Court
Mb. Justice McKenna,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court. ■. The Circuit Court assumed that Ordinance No. 402 was in terms exclusive and was intended to be made so by the city. We shall assume the same thing.' Indeed, it would be impossible to decide otherwise. .It recites that the Hutchinson Water, Light and Power Company “is the owner of certain exclusive, franchises and contracts with the city of Hutchinson,” under which rt':has expended large sums of money, and that the city “is desirous of modifying and changing said franchise and contracts to the…
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