McCallum v. Germantown Water Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia : In Equity. This proceeding was commenced by bill by the Germantown Water Company against William McCallum, filed November 7th 1862. The bill set forth that the complainants were incorporated on the 29th of March 1851, for the purpose of supplying the citizens of Germantown with water, and were authorized to purchase and hold springs and streams of water and lands to which they may be appertenant, and to…
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Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia : In Equity. This proceeding was commenced by bill by the Germantown Water Company against William McCallum, filed November 7th 1862. The bill set forth that the complainants were incorporated on the 29th of March 1851, for the purpose of supplying the citizens of Germantown with water, and were authorized to purchase and hold springs and streams of water and lands to which they may be appertenant, and to erect necessary works: that in pursuance of this authority they purchased a tract of land on both branches of Crab creek,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Read, J.
The Germantown Water Company was incorporated under the 18th and 19th sections of an Act of Assembly passed the 29th of March 1851, Pamph. L. 295, which substantially adopted the provisions of “An act to incorporate The Honesdale Water Company,” passed the 14th of March 1850, Pamph. L. 497, as -fully as if the 3d section and all the subsequent sections of the said act were thereby re-enacted, substituting the borough of Germantown and county of Philadelphia, for the borough of *45Iionesdale and county of Wayne, wherever the same are mentioned in…
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