City of Moorhead v. Union Light, Heat & Power Co.
District Court, D. Minnesota
In Equity. Suit by the City of Moorhead against the Union Eight, Heat & Power Company, with cross-bill. On motions by each party for preliminary injunction and by complainant to dismiss cross-bill.
1Opinion of the Court
AMIDO'N, District Judge.
Plaintiff, the city of Moorhead, is a municipal corporation operating under a home rule charter adopted by its people March 22, 1900. That charter (section 223), provides that every ordinance by which the council shall propose to grant any franchise shall contain all the terms and conditions of. the franchise, and it shall be a feature of every franchise so granted that the maximum price of the service shall be stated in the grant, and before t.he ordinance shall become effective it shall be submitted to, and approved by, the qualified voters of the city.
On the 6th day…
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