Kansas Power Co. v. City of Washington

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

Plaintiff brought this action to enjoin the city of Washington from issuing bonds in the sum of $88,000, which the electors of the city had voted for the purpose of constructing a municipal light and power plant. Certain public officials were impleaded in the action on account of their official concern in the litigation.

In plaintiff’s petition it was alleged that ever since 1917, under *963lawfully granted franchises, it and its predecessors in title had been generating and selling electric energy for all domestic and industrial purposes to…