Nebraska Natural Gas Co. v. City of Lexington

The Nebraska Natural Gas Company, a corporation, as plaintiff, brought this action in the district court for Dawson County against the City of Lexington, a municipal corporation, C. L. Bieck, president of the city council, Fred C. Warnemunde, Jr., Oden Delp, George Keller, and Walter Judge, council members of the City of Lexington, defendants, to obtain a judgment enjoining the defendants from preventing the plaintiff putting into effect a rate schedule for the sale of gas to customers in the defendant city.

The defendants demurred to the plaintiff’s petition. The trial court sustained the…