Puget Sound International Railway v. City of Everett

Citations

• 103 Wash. 495
• 175 P. 40
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1105

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations- — Contracts for Street Lighting — Construction. A city cannot have the size of its lights reduced without consent of the company, under a contract for city lighting providing that the city shall establish the location and size of the lamps and that, when a lamp shall have been once established, it shall continue during the life of the contract, except that its position may be changed, and that new improved lamps shall be approximately the same wattage and cost as the one for which it is substituted; the intention being that the revenue of the company should not be reduced.</p>