Keller v. Riverton Consolidated Water Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 9, March T., 1907, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Cumberland Co., March T., 1905, No. 1, dismissing bill in equity in case of M. R. Church Keller v. Riverton Consolidated Water Company. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Sadler, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned amongst others was decree of the court dismissing the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
Although the assignments of error in this case number a score, they have been so grouped by the learned counsel for the appellant, that the consideration and determination, of four questions will dispose of every material point raised by the assignments.
*304Prior to February, 1905, there existed, in the county of Cumberland, six separate corporations, each created for the purpose of supplying water to the public within the territory covered by their respective charters. Each of these companies had been regularly and lawfully created under the general act of 1874 and its…
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