Naugatuck Water Co. v. Nichols
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action upon a subscription to the capital stock of the plaintiff corporation; brought to the District Court of Waterbury, and heard before Bradstreet, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant. ’The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
The plaintiff is a corporation created by a special act of the General Assembly passed at its January session, 1887, “ for the purpose of supplying the town of Naugatuck with a supply of pure water for domestic and other uses.” The charter is found in the special acts of that session at page 571. It grants to the corporation the *407privilege to take springs of water, to make dams for reservoirs, to construct aqueducts in any of the streets, to enter upon land, and to collect rents, and empowers it to borrow money, to give mortgages, to make contracts, and to do very many other things thought to…
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