Stein v. Bienville Water Supply Co.
United States Circuit Court
On Application for Injunction pendente lite. The bill in this cause was filed April 25,1887, by Louis Stein, as executor of Albert Stein, deceased, and sought to enjoin the defendant from laying mains and pipes in the streets of Mobile, and from conducting water to that city and supplying the inhabitants therewith. Beginning with. 1820, several attempts were made by public and private enterprises to supply the city of Mobile with water, but these met with little success.
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On Application for Injunction pendente lite. The bill in this cause was filed April 25,1887, by Louis Stein, as executor of Albert Stein, deceased, and sought to enjoin the defendant from laying mains and pipes in the streets of Mobile, and from conducting water to that city and supplying the inhabitants therewith. Beginning with. 1820, several attempts were made by public and private enterprises to supply the city of Mobile with water, but these met with little success. The first attempts went little further than the definite selection of the head of Three-Mile creek, near Mobile, as the…
1Opinion of the Court
Harlan, Justice.
This case is before me upon complainant’s application for an injunction, pending the suit, to restrain the defendant, its officers, agents, servants, and employes, from digging trenches and laying mains and pipes in the streets and public ways of Mobile, for the purpose of bringing and conducting water into that city; from supplying such water to the city and its inhabitants; and from hindering and molesting complainant in supplying that city and its people with water tinder the agreement of December 26, 1840, and the act of January 7, 1841.
The application ought not to be…
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