Somerville Water Co. v. Borough of Somerville

Walker, V. C.

The complainant filed a bill-in this court against the mayor and council of the borough of Somerville praying for an injunction restraining them from interrupting and interfering with the complainant’s work of opening Cliff street, in the town of Somerville, and laying its pipes therein. An application for a preliminary injunction was denied upon the ground that it was at least doubtful whether the complainant had the right to proceed in the face of the borough’s resistance, when, in fact, the company had not complied with an ordinance of the municipality, which required that the…