Incorporated Town of Laurens v. Northern Iowa Gas & Electric Co.

COTTERAE, District Judge.

Of these five actions, four were brought, respectively, in a state court, by the towns of Eaurens, Fonda, Pomeroy, and Kanawha, in Iowa, against the Northern Iowa Gas & Electric Company, and the other by that company in the court below against the town of Euverne, in the same state. The question involved in each of the cases was whether the towns might demand en*433forcement of certain contracts with the company to furnish to them electric current from its plant at Humboldt, Iowa. Both sought injunctions—the towns against the threatened withdrawal of the current, and the…