Plainfield-Union Water Co. v. Inhabitants of City of Plainfield
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari. Certiorari to review the appointment of commissioners to' condemn a portion of the water works of the prosecutor, from which the edy of Plainfield and other municipalities in the counties of Union and Somerset are supplied with water. The prosecutor is a corporation formed the consolidation of the Plainfield Water Supply Company and the Union Water Company, pursuant to the General Corporation act.
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On certiorari. Certiorari to review the appointment of commissioners to' condemn a portion of the water works of the prosecutor, from which the edy of Plainfield and other municipalities in the counties of Union and Somerset are supplied with water. The prosecutor is a corporation formed the consolidation of the Plainfield Water Supply Company and the Union Water Company, pursuant to the General Corporation act. The consolidation agreement is dated September 21st, 1906. The Plainfield Water Supply Company existed under a special charter of April 2d, 1869, and the Union Water Company under a…
1Opinion of the Court
Tlie opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
The questions in this ease are interesting and most important, and, as far as we know, of first impression. We pass the question as to the extent of the powers and rights acquired by the consolidation of the two water companies, and do not decide whether thereby the right of the Plainfield company was so extended as to justify it in supplying water io municipalities under the Union company charter which it was not authorized to supply under its own. The Plainfield company was, by its charter, authorized to supply not only *334the village (now…
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