Wilson v. Brennan

Litz, Judge:

Relators seek by prohibition to restrict the execution of an order of reference in a chancery cause pending in the circuit court of Ohio County. The suit was instituted by relators on behalf of themselves, and others similarly situated, against Natural Gas Company of West Virginia (a public utility furnishing natural gas for domestic and industrial use in Wheeling, Benwood and neighboring vicinities), to enjoin the company from collecting an allegedly excessive rate, and to recover charges paid in excess of the alleged legal rate. On July 20, 1922, the gas company applied to the…