Wright v. Nashville Gas & Heating Co.

The original bill in this cause was filed in the Chancery Court of Davidson County, under the Declaratory Judgment Act, Code 1932, Section 8835 et seq., by the complainant, as a taxpayer and property owner of Nashville, seeking to have the charter and franchise of the defendant, Nashville Gas & Heating Company, declared to be invalid and illegal in so far as these corporate documents were construed to empower the defendant to sell natural, as distinguished from manufactured gas, in the City of Nashville.

Before the filing of the bill, the City of Nashville had construed the charter and…