Muscatine Lighting Co. v. City of Muscatine

M0RLING, J,

Our view on the question of power of the municipality to issue bonds to provide for the cost of extension and enlargement of an existing municipally constructed and owned electric light and power plant disposes of the case, and, therefore, other questions argued will not be discussed.

As will be seen, the defendant city has a newly constructed plant. At the beginning of this litigation, the defendants sought to maintain the proposition that the additional equipment intended to be installed constituted an independent plant, for the installation of which the city might proceed as for…