United States Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Co. v. Henry Vogt Machine Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt

Reversing.

The Providence "Water & Utilities Company, was a corporation, organized under the laws of the state of Delaware, and wé can only surmise, as to what-powers, it had under the articles of incorporation, from what it thereafter, attempted to do, as the articles of incorporation are not included in the record. It became the owner of a franchise, as is presumed, that gave it the right to operate a water works system and an ice plant factory, in the town of Providence, Kentucky, but, there is no copy of the franchise in the record, nor pleading, nor…