City of Valparaiso v. Valparaiso City Water Co.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Prom Lake Circuit Court; T. E. Howard, Special Judge. Action by the Valparaiso City Water Company against the city of Valparaiso to collect water rent. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, P. J.
The complaint of the appellee against the appellant, a demurrer to which for want of sufficient facts was overruled, showed that the assignors of the appellee in the year 1885 entered into a contract with the appellant by an ordinance then passed by the common council of the city and accepted by tlie assignors of the appellee, for the construction and maintenance of a system of water*317works in the city of Valparaiso. In the first section of the ordinance, exhibited with the complaint, authority was given to the assignors of the appellee, their successors or assigns, to establish, construct, and…
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