General Minnesota Utilities Company V‪.‬

Plaintiff brought this suit to restrain defendant from furnishing electrical energy to a cooperative creamery located at Kettle River in Carlton county. Plaintiff is a Delaware corporation duly licensed to do business in this state. It is engaged in generating and distributing for sale electrical energy as a public utility. Defendant, as its name suggests, is a cooperative organization, created and existing under the provisions of L. 1923, c. 326, and amendatory acts. It also is engaged in generating and disposing of electrical energy, but its business efforts have been devoted to rural areas beyond the confines of Kettle River. The village is a municipal corporation organized under the general laws of this state. On August 6, 1929, the village enacted ordinance No. 19, providing substantially as follows: