Legal Opinion

Montgomery Light & Water Power Co. v. Charles

District Court, M.D. Alabama

Decided July 15, 1919No. 233PublishedCited by 10 opinions

In Equity. Bill by the Montgomery Light & Water Power Company against T. T. Charles and others. Order for permanent injunction.

1Opinion of the Court

HENRY D. CLAYTON, District Judge.

About the year 1900 the plaintiff, the Montgomery Light & Water Power Company, a New Jersey corporation, constructed and has since owned and operated a dam and an electro-hydraulic plant on the Tallapoosa river about 3 miles above the town of Tallassee, Ala., and has been and is now engaged in generating and selling electric power to the public generally at Montgomery and in that vicinity for lighting and industrial purposes.

In the year 1917 the defendants in th.xs case owned or operated the lands situated along the river and below the dam as farms. On August…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway Co. v. KelloggSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  2. Boyce's Executors v. GrundySupreme Court of the United States · 1830
  3. Hale v. AllinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
  4. Sharon v. TuckerSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  5. Tobler v. Pioneer Mining & Mfg. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1909

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Kulas v. Public Service Electric & Gas Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1964
  2. Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields v. KilkearyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1953
  3. Commodores Point Terminal Co. v. HudnallDistrict Court, S.D. Florida · 1922
  4. American Central Ins. v. Harmon Knitting Mills, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1930
  5. Ellis v. Alabama Power Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1983

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