National Waterworks Co. v. Kansas City
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri
This was a suit by the National Waterworks Company of New York against the city of Kansas City, Mo., to enforce a contract for the construction and operation of a system of waterworks, and the purchase thereof by the city. The city filed a cross bill seeking to be relieved from the contract.
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This was a suit by the National Waterworks Company of New York against the city of Kansas City, Mo., to enforce a contract for the construction and operation of a system of waterworks, and the purchase thereof by the city. The city filed a cross bill seeking to be relieved from the contract. A decree for performance of the contract was entered by the circuit court, and, on appeal to the circuit court of appeals, was modified, and affirmed as modified. 10 C. C. A 653, 62 Fed. 853. Upon the filing of conveyances of the waterworks system, as directed in the decree, the city filed exceptions to…
1Opinion of the Court
BREWER, Circuit Justice.
At the May term, 1894, of the court of appeals for this circuit, a decree was ordered to be entered in this case, hy which, among other things, the National Waterworks Company was directed to execute and place in escrow with the clerk of this court, on or before December 1, 1894, good and sufficient deeds, assignments, releases, bills of sale, and other conveyances for the transfer to the city of Kansas City of the whole and complete waterworks system belonging to such company, including that portion thereof which- is situated in the state of Kansas; and that within 30…
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