Tri-State Electric Cooperative v. City of Blue Ridge

This was an action by Tri-State Electric Cooperative against the City of Blue Ridge to recover $481.17 with interest for electric service furnished the defendant from April, 1952, to the date of the suit. By cross-action the defendant counterclaimed against the plaintiff for a sum equal to 1% of the gross income of the plaintiff derived from the sales of electric service or energy within the corporate limits of the defendant municipality. Upon the trial the case was submitted to the judge of the superior court on an agreed statement of facts for a decision by him of all issues of law and…