Central States Power & Light Corp. v. Thompson

This is an appeal from the district court of Payne county. The action is one in assumpsit instituted by the defendants in error, hereinafter called plaintiffs, against the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, to recover the amount of certain payments on account of gas sold by the defendant to the plaintiffs, which gas was paid for at the domestic rate instead -of the industrial rate and which excess plaintiffs claim was unlawfully and improperly exacted from them.

In their petition plaintiffs allege that the defendant was engaged in the sale and distribution of natural gas in the…