City of Chicago v. Rogers Park Water Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Ricks
In 1888 the village of Rogers Park contracted with one H. E. Keeler, his successors and assigns, for the establishment of a water-works plant in that village. Appellee, a corporation organized under the laws of this State, as the assign of Keeler, built and constructed a plant and system of waterworks. At that time Rogers Park was a small village containing some two hundred or three hundred houses. The contract between Keeler and the village was in the form of an ordinance, the provisions of which were accepted, and required that the plant should have a capacity, at the outset, of 1,500,000…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Smyth v. Ames; Smyth v. Smith; Smyth v. HigginsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Rogers Park Water Co. v. FergusSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Rogers Park Water Co. v. FergusIllinois Supreme Court · 1899
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- Byrne v. Maryland Realty Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1916
- City of Chicago v. Washingtonian HomeIllinois Supreme Court · 1919
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