Dodge v. City of Council Bluffs
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. Action for an injunction to restrain the defendants from enforcing and carrying out a certain ordinance providing for supplying the city of Council Bluffs with water.
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Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. Action for an injunction to restrain the defendants from enforcing and carrying out a certain ordinance providing for supplying the city of Council Bluffs with water. The petition shows that the defendants, other than the city of Council Bluffs are members, officers, and agents of the American Construction Company, incorporated under the laws of New York for the purpose of supplying water for municipal and other purposes; that the company has no office or place of business m agency outside of the State of New York; that in January. 1881, the common…
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, Ch. J.
1. COBPOBAeigtffpowers of‘ It is not claimed that the defendant city lias no power to provide by ordinance for the construction of water-works. It would be conceded that it has the lower to do so, and even to provide for tlieir construction by a corporation. The claim is that it has no power to provide for their construction by a foreign corporation, and especially by a foreign corporation like the American Construction Company, which is not expressly authorized by the laws of the State in which it is incorporated to extend its operations outside of the State. In our opinion this…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Arms v. ConantSupreme Court of Vermont · 1864
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