Middlesex Water Co. v. Knappmann Whiting Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. The Middlesex Water Company, the defendant in error, brought an action in the Supreme Court to recover the-amount due for water supplied to the defendant, a manufacturing company whose factory and place of business were in the township of Woodbridge, and for furnishing and setting up a meter and connecting the defendant’s premises with the-mains of the plaintiff, in pursuance of an agreement between the parties set out in the plaintiff’s…
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On error to the Supreme Court. The Middlesex Water Company, the defendant in error, brought an action in the Supreme Court to recover the-amount due for water supplied to the defendant, a manufacturing company whose factory and place of business were in the township of Woodbridge, and for furnishing and setting up a meter and connecting the defendant’s premises with the-mains of the plaintiff, in pursuance of an agreement between the parties set out in the plaintiff’s declaration and in the bill of particulars. The dispute in the case was not upon the claim of the plaintiff for the services…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
The application in .writing of the manufacturing company for water was accepted by the water company, and became a contract of the parties respectively. The water company in its declaration sets out the contract as expressing the terms of its agreement, as well as the agreement on the part of the defendant. The bill of particulars shows that the water company’s claim against the defendant was founded on this agreement. The water company in this suit sued for and recovered payments for water under the contract which became due July 1st, 1898…
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- Dexter v. . NortonNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
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