Rieker v. City of Lancaster
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 145, Oct. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Lancaster Co., Equity Docket, No. 3, page 189, dissolving preliminary injunction and dismissing plaintiff's bill. Hearing on bill, answer and proofs.
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Appeal, No. 145, Oct. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Lancaster Co., Equity Docket, No. 3, page 189, dissolving preliminary injunction and dismissing plaintiff's bill. Hearing on bill, answer and proofs. Before Brubaker, J. It appears from the bill, answer and proofs that the proceedings below were begun by bill in equity which enjoined the city of Lancaster and its municipal authorities operating and controlling and directing the waterworks, from imposing charges of water rents by measured meter rates upon certain consumers, while, at the same time, they charged other and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
This case involves the right of the city of Lancaster to put in force a schedule of rates for furnishing the citizens with water, by which certain consumers are required to pay a fixed annual amount irrespective of quantity consumed and certain others to pay on the basis of quantity, ascertained by measurement and charged for at a certain rate per 1,000 gallons.
The novelty of the question raised and the earnestness and ability with which it has been presented by counsel, lead us to add at some length our confirmation of what has already been well said by the court below.
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