Butte Water Co. v. City of Butte
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Silver Bow County; Jeremiah J. Lynch, Judge. Action by the Butte Water Company against the city of Butte. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. There can be no difference between “all general municipal purposes” and “all public purposes of the city.”
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Appeal from District Court, Silver Bow County; Jeremiah J. Lynch, Judge. Action by the Butte Water Company against the city of Butte. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. There can be no difference between “all general municipal purposes” and “all public purposes of the city.” There is no material difference between a phrase “all general municipal purposes” and “all ordinary or customary municipal purposes.” ■Sprinkling the streets has been held to be a public purpose of a municipality, and this is the same as a general municipal purpose. {Maydwell v. City of Louisville, 116 Ky.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sanner
The pleadings in this case unfold with progressive elaboration. In all they occupy 169 pages of the transcript, and to produce them here, to present even an abstract of their essentials, would take so much space and serve such little purpose that a bare statement of the ultimate issue must suffice.
The respondent water company (plaintiff below) recovered judgment against the appellant, city of Butte, for $11,445 made up as follows: $8,464.50, with interest, for certain fire-hydrant water furnished the city in the months of July, August, September and October, 1911, under a written contract…
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