City of La Crosse v. La Crosse Gas & Electric Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higkbee, Circuit Judge. Action for an accounting and to recover a debt claimed to be due under defendant’s electric light franchise.
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Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higkbee, Circuit Judge. Action for an accounting and to recover a debt claimed to be due under defendant’s electric light franchise. These are the facts stated in the complaint material for consideration: Defendant is and was during all the times- which concern this case, a public utility corporation in the city of La Orosse, Wisconsin, engaged in the generation, distribution, and sale of electric current therein for public and private purposes, using the streets and public places to that end. The terms of the franchise…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
Secs. 9405 to 940/, Stats. (1898), relating to the sale of franchises by cities and villages has no bearing here other than, perhaps, as indicating legislative conception of the clearness required in conferring power on a municipality to regulate occupations for the purpose of public revenue. In that respect the difference between such sections and the one important to this case is quite striking as we ■shall see. While that circumstance may have been given rather too great significance in deciding the case below, as counsel for appellant suggests, the reasoning of the circuit judge by no…
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