Troy Water Co. v. Troy Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 55, Jan. T., 1900, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Bradford Co., Sept. T. 1896, No. 1, on bill in equity in case of Troy Water Company and Eli B. Parsons v. The Borough of Troy, Liston Bliss, Burgess, L. H. Oliver, George O. Holcomb, H. S. Leonard, M. E. Bailey, L. J. Ballard, A. B. McKean, W. B. Gernert, Charles N. Grohs, S. W. Pomeroy, Brainard Bowen and M. J. McNulty, Council. Bill in equity for an injunction.
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Appeal, No. 55, Jan. T., 1900, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Bradford Co., Sept. T. 1896, No. 1, on bill in equity in case of Troy Water Company and Eli B. Parsons v. The Borough of Troy, Liston Bliss, Burgess, L. H. Oliver, George O. Holcomb, H. S. Leonard, M. E. Bailey, L. J. Ballard, A. B. McKean, W. B. Gernert, Charles N. Grohs, S. W. Pomeroy, Brainard Bowen and M. J. McNulty, Council. Bill in equity for an injunction. From the record it appeared that prior to 1896, the Troy Water Company had supplied the borough of Troy with water under a contract with the borough made many years…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion bv
Me,. Justice Dean,
This was a suit in equity by the Troy Water Company, against the borough of Troy, to restrain it from inaugurating a new system of water supply to the borough, independent of the Troy Water Company. It was about to lay its mains side by side on the same streets with the Troy Water Company, intending to supply the borough and its householders.
The learned judge of the court below, further finds, that the Tróy Water Company was incorporated November 30, 1878, under the act of assembly of April 29, 1874, for the purpose of supplying water for the use of the borough and…
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