Carlisle Gas & Water Co. v. Carlisle Water Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 22, Jan. T., 1897, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Cumberland Co., June T., 1896, No. 6, on bill in equity. Bill in equity to restrain the construction of water works. Before Biddle, P. J. The facts appear by tbe opinion of the Supreme Court. The court below granted a preliminary injunction which it subsequently continued. Brror assigned was above decree.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The parties to this suit are not correctly given in appellants’ paper-book and history of the case. In both, the plaintiff and defendant-are the two corporations, and the only parties litigant, *20while in fact joined with the Carlisle Gas & Water Company as plaintiff, is a taxpayer of the borough of Carlisle, and presumably a representative of other taxpayers. Therefore, we must assume that the complainants represent both the private and municipal corporations’ interest, so far as the latter can be represented by one of its members, undisputably acting for himself and…
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