Wood v. City of Victoria

PLEASAHTS, Associate Justice.

This is a suit in which appellant seeks, upon final hearing, an injunction restraining appellee, the city of Yictoria, and other appellees, from continuing to supply water from the waterworks of the city to a certain gin company, a private corporation operating its gin outside the city limits, for the use of said company in the conduct of its private business. The defendants in the suit, besides the city of Yictoria, were its mayor and its aldermen. The gin company, which the petition alleges the city was supplying with water under an illegal contract made with…