PEOPLE'S GAS LIGHT & COKE CO. v. CHICAGO

No. 132.

194 U.S. 1 (1904)

PEOPLE'S GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY v. CHICAGO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 4, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William D. Guthrie, with whom Mr. James F. Meagher and Mr. William F. Sheehan were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Granville W. Browning, with whom Mr. Edgar Bronson Tolman was on the brief, for appellee.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a bill to restrain the city of Chicago from putting in force a general ordinance passed October 15, 1900, providing that corporations, companies or persons manufacturing, selling and distributing gas in the city of Chicago for illuminating or fuel purposes should not charge individual consumers more than seventy-five cents per thousand cubic feet, and providing...

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