Turner v. Revere Water Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill IN equity, filed February 5, 1897, to compel the defendant to supply the plaintiff with water, and to restrain it from preventing him from securing a suitable supply thereof.
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Bill IN equity, filed February 5, 1897, to compel the defendant to supply the plaintiff with water, and to restrain it from preventing him from securing a suitable supply thereof. At the hearing in the Superior Court, on an agreed statement of facts, a decree was entered restraining the defendant from refusing or neglecting to supply the plaintiff with a suitable supply of water so long as he continues to pay the regular water rates, and complies with all other reasonable and usual regulations of the defendant in the future, except those relating to the payment of the water rates remaining…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
On February, 1, 1897, the plaintiff hired a dwelling-house in Winthrop, from Clarissa C. Doane, its owner. Two days later, he applied to the defendant to have water turned on, and tendered the price charged from January 1,1897, to January 1, 1898. The defendant refused to turn on the water, until the amount due to it for water supplied to Mrs. Doane from January 1, 1896, to October 10, 1896, had been paid. In October, 1893, one Emmet Doane, then owner of the house, made an application for water for the house, and paid the bills sent to him on July 1, 1894, and on July 1, 1895. On July 13,…
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