Legal Opinion

Dedham Water Co., Inc. v. Cumberland Farms Dairy, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided August 18, 1992No. 91-2116PublishedCited by 170 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal represents the final voyage of a case that has persisted in the federal courts for nearly a decade. Finding, as we do, that the judgment below is fully supportable, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Because these waters have been so thoroughly charted, we merely sketch the background insofar as is necessary to set this appeal and the underlying litigation into perspective,

A

Plaintiff-appellant Dedham-Westwood Water District (which, together with its predecessor in interest, Dedham Water Company, we shall call “Dedham”) is a regulated public utility. It supplies drinking…

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