Bourke v. Olcott Water Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery, Windsor County. Heard at Chambers-on August 30, 1910, on the pleadings and master’s report, Taylor, Chancellor. Decree, pro forma, dismissing the bill with costs; to the defendants. The orators appealed. The opinion states-the case. If the orators have the right to compel defendant to supply them with water, mandamus is the only proper remedy.
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Appeal in Chancery, Windsor County. Heard at Chambers-on August 30, 1910, on the pleadings and master’s report, Taylor, Chancellor. Decree, pro forma, dismissing the bill with costs; to the defendants. The orators appealed. The opinion states-the case. If the orators have the right to compel defendant to supply them with water, mandamus is the only proper remedy. Coxr v. Malden Gaslight Co., 199'Mass. 324; State v. R. R., 48 N. J. L. 55; State v. R. R. Co., 37 Conn. 154; Grady ex rel. v. R. R.,. 12 L. R. A. 181; People v. Albany etc. Co., 24 N. Y. 267; R. R. Co. v. Stockyard Co., 6 L. R. A.…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
The defendants having refused to furnish, the orators with a supply of water for domestic use, these proceedings have been instituted to compel them by mandatory injunction so to do.
The Olcott Water Company is a corporation chartered' by No. 189, Acts of 1892, and is engaged in the business of selling water to the village of Wilder (formerly Olcott Falls) and its= inhabitants for municipal and domestic uses. The other - defendants are its managing officers. The orators live in the-village, and occupy rented tenements situate on the south side of Hawthorne street. The company’s main passes…
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