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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 10435.
    Jackson, a Taxpayer, etc., v. The City of Nelsonville et al.
    Decided February 4, 1908.
    Error to Circuit Court of Athens county.
    
      Messrs. Grosvenor, Jones & Worst oil; Messrs. Addison, Sinks & Babcock; Mr. T. H. Hogsett; Mr. Miller Outcalt and Mr. H. J. Booth, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Mr. Emmett Keenan, city solicitor; Mr. C. W. Juniper and Messrs. Lewis & Sayre, for defendants in error.
   Judgment reversed, because at time of entering upon the enlarging of the electric plant the statute contained no authority for furnishing electricity to citizens.

Price, Crew, Spear and Davis, JJ., concur. Summers, J., dissents.