Twin Village Water Co. v. Damariscotta Gas Light Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. This was a bill in equity brought by the Twin Village Water Company praying for both a preliminary and permanent injunction against the Damariscotta Gas Light Company, its servants and agents, to enjoin and prohibit it and them from making, generating, selling, distributing or supplying light for any purpose in or to said town of Damariscotta, to individuals or corporations therein, or to said town, and from using the streets, highways and public roads in said…
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On report. This was a bill in equity brought by the Twin Village Water Company praying for both a preliminary and permanent injunction against the Damariscotta Gas Light Company, its servants and agents, to enjoin and prohibit it and them from making, generating, selling, distributing or supplying light for any purpose in or to said town of Damariscotta, to individuals or corporations therein, or to said town, and from using the streets, highways and public roads in said town therefor. The ease having come on to be heard on bill and answer and replication, the presiding justice reported the…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
The plaintiff corporation was chartered by special act of the legislature, Private and Special Laws of 1893, c. 607. It was authorized “to furnish water for the extinguishment of fires and for domestic, sanitary and municipal uses to the towns of Nobleboro, Newcastle and JDamariscotta, and the inhabitants thereof, and to furnish electric lights for lighting streets in said towns, and to dispose of electric light and power to individuals and corporations.” By section 11 of the incoporating act as subsequently amended, it was provided that “in case no portion of the works of this corporation…
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