Peoples Gas & Electric Co. v. State Tax Commission

Oliver, C. J.-

Plaintiff Kansas City Power and Light Company owned and plaintiff Peoples Gas & Electric Company operated a powerhouse and electric generating plant at Mason City, with connected lines furnishing electricity in said city and to several adjacent industrial plants, and to an electric railway, and in or to thirteen neighboring towns; also about six hundred twenty-five miles of rural lines serving about sixteen hundred rural customers in five counties in northern Iowa. They also owned and operated a gas system furnishing natural gas in six of said cities and towns and certain…