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Show JUDOE FAVORS A -GAS COMPANY Chicago, Aug. 3. In a decision today. to-day. Judge Gibbons of the circuit court fixed the price of gas at 80 cents a thousand cubic feet, pending 4he final dlsposltiqn of the Injunction suit brought by the People's Gas, ' Light & Coke company to prevent the enforcement iof the ordinance re cently passed by the city council reducing re-ducing the rate from S5 to an average aver-age of 70 cents during the next five years. The court, deferred action on the issuance cf an .injunction. The court also refused to direct the gas company to imgound in a special funl the amount collected from consumers con-sumers in excess .of the 70-cent rate while the litigation over the rate Is in progress. The decision came as a surprise to the legal representatives of the city who will appeal from the ruling. |