Brymer v. Butler Water Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 182, Oct. T., 1896, by defendant, from decree of C. P. Butler Co., on bill in equity. Bill in equity for an injunction.
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Appeal, No. 182, Oct. T., 1896, by defendant, from decree of C. P. Butler Co., on bill in equity. Bill in equity for an injunction. The case was previously reported in 172 Pa. 489. From the record it appeared that on March 9, 1896, the Butler Water Company which had been previously enjoined from collecting water rents, presented its petition to the court, setting forth that it had obtained a new supply of water at a large expense, and praying permission to charge water rents in accordance with a schedule presented to the court. At the hearing upon this petition the company presented certain…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice; Williams,
The questions presented on this appeal are unlike those that were considered and decided in 172 Pa. 489, when these parties were first before us. The questions then raised related to the power of the court to suspend the collection of water rents by the company so long as the water delivered by it to its customers was so impure as to be clearly unfit for domestic use. We held, affirming thereby the ruling of the court below, that the act of April 29,1874, invested the courts of common pleas with the visitorial powers of the commonwealth as to water and gas…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Brymer v. Butler Water Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
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