Reeves v. Philadelphia Suburban Water Co.

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Schaffeb,

The question we are here to determine is whether defendant water company possesses and may exercise the power of eminent domain to condemn plaintiffs’ lands for the purpose of erecting a reservoir. On plaintiffs’ bill for an injunction to forbid the taking, the learned court below refused the relief prayed for; and from this denial of the remedy to which they allege themselves to be entitled, plaintiffs lay before us this appeal.

The Philadelphia Suburban Water Company was formed by the merger and union of thirty-four water companies, all of them chartered prior…