People's Gas Light & Coke Co. v. Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The fundamental allegation of the bill was that the ordinance of October 15, 1900, impaired the obligation of the charter contract which bound the legislature not to authorize the city council of Chicago to compel the People’s Company to furnish gas at a less rate than three dollars per thousand feet.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The fundamental allegation of the bill was that the ordinance of October 15, 1900, impaired the obligation of the charter contract which bound the legislature not to authorize the city council of Chicago to compel the People’s Company to furnish gas at a less rate than three dollars per thousand feet. The city claimed that it had been duly authorized to pass the ordinance under and by virtue of the City and Village. Act of 1872. Hence the controversy.…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice .Fuller
delivered the opinion of the court.
" This was a bill to restrain the city of Chicago from putting in force a general ordinance passed October 15, 1900, providing that corporations, companies or persons manufacturing, selling and distributing gas in the city of Chicago for illuminating or fuel purposes should not charge individual consumers more than seventy-five cents per thousand cubic feet, and providing penalties for violation of its provisions. The bill, was de- . murred to, and an opinion delivered on hearing on demurrer 114 Fed. Rep. 384.
The opinion took a wider…
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