Rockhill Iron & Coal Co. v. City of Taunton
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; James M. Morton, Judge. Action by the Rockhill Iron & Coal Company against the City of Taunton. Judgment for defendant (261 Fed. 234), and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.
This is an action brought by the Rock-hill i ron & Coal Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, against the city of Taunton, a Massachusetts municipal corporation, for breach of contract.
The plaintiff’s business consists in mining coal in Pennsylvania and shipping it to purchasers in the different states. The defendant corporation was authorized (Acts of Massachusetts 1905, c. 410, § 3) to maintain and operate a plant for manufacturing and distributing electricity for the benefit of its inhabitants. The provisions of the above act, so far as material to this case, read as…
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