Legal Opinion
Henderson Water Co. v. Corporation Comm'n of NC
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 4, 1926No. 249PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
This is an appeal under § 266 of the Judicial Code from an order refusing a temporary injunction heard before three judges. The Henderson Water Company is the owner by assignment of a franchise to furnish to Henderson, North Carolina, a supply of water. The franchise, with a term of forty years, was granted in 1892 by the city, when it was a town, to certain grantees, from whom it came in 1894 to the Water Company, which was complainant below, and is appellant here. The ordinance ■provided a schedule of prices for water to be furnished beyond which the grantee could not go. Later the State of…
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