Los Angeles v. Los Angeles City Water Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. This suit involves the constitutionality of an ordinance of the city of Los Angeles, adopted February 23, 189Y, fixing the water rates to be charged and collected by the Los Angeles City "Water Company for the year ending June 30, 1898. It is claimed that the ordinance impairs the obligation of the contract made with the grantors of the company on the 20th of July, 1868. The facts…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. This suit involves the constitutionality of an ordinance of the city of Los Angeles, adopted February 23, 189Y, fixing the water rates to be charged and collected by the Los Angeles City "Water Company for the year ending June 30, 1898. It is claimed that the ordinance impairs the obligation of the contract made with the grantors of the company on the 20th of July, 1868. The facts were stipulated, and are substantially as follows: On the 22d of July, 1868, the city of Los Angeles entered into a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The Circuit Court decided that the provision of the contract executed by the city and Griffin, Beandry and hazard constituted a contract, and the ordinance of the city regulating the rates of appellees impaired it. Against this conclusion the appellant contends: (i) The contract only purports to bind the city in its corporate capacity — the city as landlord and owner, and not as a governmental agent of the State. (2) The city did not have power to bind the State; (3) the provision of the contract, restraining the city from granting any other franchise, if it created an exclusive franchise,…
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