Genkinger v. City of New Castle Water Co.

Braham, P. J.,

This case comes before the court en banc on exceptions to an adjudication refusing to enjoin defendants from treating the water supply of the City of New Castle and surrounding municipalities with compounds of fluorine.

Plaintiffs have filed some 26 exceptions to the adjudication, but their main contention, raised by their 20th exception, is that it was ultra vires for the water *87company to treat the water supply with fluorine. It is axiomatic that a corporation being a creature of the State has no powers except those conferred upon it by the legislature: Bangor Electric Company’s…