Northwestern Public Service Co. v. City of Aberdeen

DUNN, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff Northwestern Public Service Company brought these actions for declaratory judgments against defendants, City of Aberdeen, Robert Nikolas, Al Westby, Mae Zemlicka and Allen Gates, as members of the City Council of Aberdeen, and Jeff Solem, as Mayor of Aberdeen, to determine the validity of a city ordinance regulating electric rates. From verdicts of the Circuit Court of the Fifth Judicial Circuit upholding the ordinance, the plaintiff appeals claiming that the trial court erred (1) in upholding the validity of the ordinance, (2) in not finding that laches and…