Freeport Water Co. v. Freeport City
Supreme Court of the United States
EEEOE TO THE SUPEEME COUET OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. .This was an action of assumpsit brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error in the circuit court of Stephenson County, State of Illinois, for the price of water delivered by plaintiff in error to defendant in error between January 1, 1896, and July 1, 1896. The cause of action was based upon a contract arising from an'.ordinance passed by defendant empowering the plaintiff to construct certain…
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EEEOE TO THE SUPEEME COUET OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. .This was an action of assumpsit brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error in the circuit court of Stephenson County, State of Illinois, for the price of water delivered by plaintiff in error to defendant in error between January 1, 1896, and July 1, 1896. The cause of action was based upon a contract arising from an'.ordinance passed by defendant empowering the plaintiff to construct certain waterworks in the city of Freeport and the renting from the plaintiff by the city of certain fire hydrants. To the defences of…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. J ustioe McKenna,
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.
*593The Supreme Court of the State based its decision on its opinions in the case of Danville v. Danville Water Co., 178 Illinois, 299, and 180 Illinois, 235. In that case the same statutes were in volved, as in the case at bar, and the contract which was claimed was based upon a substantially similar ordinance to that involved in the pending controversy.
It is not clear from, the opinion of the court whether it intended to decide that municipal corporations could' not be invested with the powér to bind…
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