State Ex Rel. City of Jasper v. Gulf States Utilities Co.

COE, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by the State of Texas, acting by and through the attorney general of Texas, upon the relation of the City of Jasper, appellant herein, against the Gulf States Utilities Company, a Texas Corporation, appellee, in the nature of a quo warranto proceeding to test the right of the utility company to use the streets and alleys of the City of Jasper for the purpose of distributing electricity to the public for profit. A jury being waived, the cause was tried to the court who found for the defendant, from which judgment the plaintiff has perfected this…