State ex rel. Jackson v. Redding

Citations

• 84 Kan. 654
• 114 P. 1094
• 1911 Kan. LEXIS 386

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Referendum — City Ordinance' Changing Rates — Public Utility Franchise. When a grant is made, by a city of the second or third class, of a franchise to supply gas to the city and its inhabitants for a term of years, which prescribes the plan on which gas is to be distributed and the rates which consumers will pay therefor, it is competent for the mayor and council of such city thereafter to make reasonable changes in the rates from time to time, and section 749 of the General Statutes of 1909 does not require that an ordinance making such changes shall be- submitted to the electors for their approval or rejection.</p>