Evans v. Holman
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Clay county; the Hon. James C. McBride, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
On March 16, 1907, the president and board of trustees of the village of Clay City, in Clay county, passed an ordinance approved on that date and designated ordinance No. 63, granting to Theodore Fisher the right to set up and maintain poles, wires and other structures and devices in the streets of the village in connection with an electric light plant to be constructed by him for the purpose of furnishing light, heat and power to the village and its inhabitants for the period of thirty years, and the ordinance provided that the village should pay him $70 per annum for each of twenty-three…
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