State ex rel. Johnson v. Consumers Public Power District

This is an original proceeding in the nature of quo warranto instituted by the attorney general by direction of the governor. The action is to determine by what warrant of law respondent, a public corporation, organized August 5, 1939, under the provisions of art. 7, ch. 70, Comp. St. Supp. 1939, exercises possession, ownership and control of the interconnected, integrated electric system known as western division of the Western Public Service Company, including certain ice and steam heating plants, and to require respondent to cease and desist therefrom and be ousted and excluded from the…