People ex rel. Maybury v. Mutual Gas-Light Co.

Leave is asked to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto to deprive the respondent of the franchise, as it is claimed to be, of laying its gas pipes and distributing gas through the streets of Detroit. The ground of the application is that the company violated some of the terms of an agreement imposing conditions against making combinations with other companies and doing certain other acts, regarded by the city of Detroit as important conditions of its assent to allowing the respondent to use its privileges within the city.

*155The statute providing for the incorporation of gas…